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Sapir whorf hypothesis |
Best known declaration of relativity. How a culture is viewed is based on the language its members speak. The structure of a language determines the speakers perception of an experience. |
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Language usage in high and low context cultures |
Low context cultures: value using language to express thoughts, feelings and ideas as directly possible. Look for the meaning of a statement in the words spoken. High context cultures- value using language to maintain social harmony. Rather than upsetting others by speaking directly they discover meaning from the context in which a message was delivered. |
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Gender based language use differences |
womens and mens speech are far more similar than different. Gender roles, occupation and social philosophy can determine the language thats used and that can make their language different. |
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Gender based language differences |
Women talk more about personal and domestic subjects, relationship problems, family, health and reproductive matters. Men talk more about current events, sports, and business. |
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Gender based language use differences |
Men emphasize making conversation fun with jokes and teasing while womens discussions involve more feelings, relationships and personal feelings. |
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Gender based language differences |
Men are more likely to use sentence fragments, judgmental adjectives, directives and i references. Women are more likely to use intensive verbs, emotional references, uncertainty verbs and relational maintenance questions. |
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Gender based language use difference are in male and females: |
Reasons for communicating, conversational style, nongender variables, and the content in which they speak on. |
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Syntactic rules |
Govern the grammar of a language. |
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Abstract language vs measurable behavioral language |
Abstract language is vague in nature while behavioral language refers to specific things people do or say. All about how specific language is when describing problems, goals, appreciation and requests. |
