Dimensions of Human Communication

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Dimensions of Human Communication

• Chapter 1

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Difference between Speech and Language

• Speech is the physical production of sound used
  for communication via the vocal tract.
• Speech includes articulation, voice and fluency.

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Speech

• Speech is a mode of communication.
• Speech is dynamic human behavior.
• Larynx, pharynx, velum, tongue, lips teeth, oral
  and nasal cavities
• Speech is made up of sounds.
• phonology

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Language

• Language is the system of arbitrary verbal
  symbols that speakers put in order according to a
  conventional code to communicate ideas and
  felling or to influence the behavior of others.
• Mode can be spoken, written or gestured.

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• Language as a social tool
• Sociolinguists
• Intentions
• Contexts
• Alternations

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• Language as learned behavior
• Behaviorists
• Verbal behavior learned through social
  consequence
• Response to verbal behavior provides the
  consequence

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• Language as a system of mental rules
• Psycholinguists
• Language represents the underlying mental rules
  (grammar) for arranging symbols (words) to
  represent ideas about the world

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Linguistic Aspects of Language

• Form of language (structural composition)
• Phonology
• Morphology
• Syntax
• Content (meanings carried by language)
• Semantics
• Use (purposes served by language)
• Pragmatics