Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages |
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The Form of the Message | 6 |
The Structure of Words | 15 |
The Structure of Sentences | 23 |
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action addressee adults agglutinating languages allomorphs allophones anglophone attitudes behavior bilingual boys child co-participants code switching communicative complex consonants contexts contrast conversation copula Creole cultural models demonstrate direct distinctions employ English evaluations example express female formal francophone French function Gaelic gender girls grammatical groups guage Gullah hearers Hindi ibid illocutionary acts indicate interactions interlocutors Japanese Kannada Labov language linguistic linguistic form male markers meanings metaphor Mohawk morphemes mother Navajo negative nonstandard nonverbal nonverbal communication norms nouns objects occur participants patterns percent person polite Polysynthetic Language prestige pronouns pronunciation questions refer requests response roles rules semantic sentences situations social society sociolinguistic sounds Spanish speak speakers speech speech acts spoken standard status strategies structure styles subjects suffixes Swahili switching syntactic tag questions talk tions topics Tzeltal underlying utterances verbs vocabulary vowel whereas women words