Language
Most prevalent symbolic system human beings use to create and share meaning about their world and ultimately, to change it
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Language | Most prevalent symbolic system human beings use to create and share meaning about their world and ultimately, to change it |
| Semantic Triangle of Meaning | Argues that the meaning of a word in a language is fluid and based in the "relations of words to ideas and of ideas to things" |
| Speaking for Entertainment | Speaking Style that uses complex word play and ambiguity in order to give and audience a sense of joy |
| Ambiguity | Undefined, unclear, a vague description of a situation |
| Irony | Speaker implies a meaning different from or opposite of the literal meaning |
| Self Deprecation | Making or poking fun at oneself in order to make a larger entertaining commentary about the world |
| Eloquence | Speaker uses beautiful, poetic, and complex language in order to improve the audience to action |
| Metaphor | Comparison between two things with similar qualities in order to explain or simplify one of those things |
| Alliteration | Repetition of an initial sound across a set of words in a sentence |
| Parallelism | Repetition of a particular wording across multiple, adjacent sentences |