Learn: COMS 144 midterm

Communication

a process by which messages containing information are sent between two people; a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, and transformed

Performative

Creative, not fake (not faking something, but creating something)

Witnessing

Listening to someone's lived experience

Epistemology

the study of knowledge

Metacommunication

Communicating about communicating

Ritual

social ceremony. Ritual view is sharing, participating, associating, and creating community. Maintaining society over time. Changes our relationship to the world. Transformation, maintenance, and repair.

Subjectivity

theory of the self & how we perceive others

Mirror stage

moment in human development, when an infant realizes they are their own self; A metaphor for social interaction- mirroring the behavior of others

Interpellation

the process where we are brought into ideology

Hail & Response

Ideology

The imaginary relationship to the real condition of existence "always has been, always will be"

3 parts: becoming normalized, how it is, how it ought to be

Repressive state apparatus

violent or coercive ways ideology maintains itself

Ideology state apparatus

religions, family, how we are taught that non-coercive

Culture

the space where we struggle over meaning—an attempt to make sense of the world

Playful

the willingness to be the fool, because then we can admit that we are wrong and open ourselves up to new possibilities

Structuralism

diacritical systems shape language

Paradigmatic Axis

ability to change a word or phrase in a sentence.

(does it make sense?) ex - feed the dog/cat, put your clothes/phone away

Syntagmatic Axis

grammar and language rules that create the order words go in a sentence (is it grammatically correct?)

Denotative

Dictionary definition (ex home: a building made of concrete, brick, wood etc. where people live)

Connotative

the collection of associations we have with the thing (ex home: a warm safe place filled with love, comfort, and family)

Attribution

explaining why someone behaved a certain way

Transmission view

Carey criticizes this. Sending, transmitting, and distributing information. Moving messages involves control. Examples: telegraph, newspapers, and television.

Jargon

Specialized or technical language of a specific group or profession that may not be understood by others

Pragmatic rules

Helps us interpret messages by analyzing the interaction based on culture + experience

Self-discovery:

the act or process of gaining knowledge and deep understanding of one's own character, values, abilities, feelings, and goals

Culture

the space where we struggle over meaning

Common sense

how things are and how they ought to be

Transaction Models

people are simultaneously senders and receivers

Action

one-way communication

Interaction

primarily uni-directional w/ some room for feedback

Transaction

always ongoing between 2 or more people

Structuralism

meaning from relationships within relative stable system

Paradigmatic

order of words in the structure, does it make sense reading it?

Syntagmatic

Is the ordering of nouns and adjectives right grammatically?

Langue

the science of language

Parole

language in use—not the focus of the structuralist; there is never one thing; it's always more, and then there is more after that

Diacritical

system of negation (dog is not cat)

Signifiers

what represents (ex the WORD apple)

Signified

what is (ex: concept of a round, sweet, crunchy, red, green, or yellow fruit)

Post-Structuralism

Relationships are constantly changing, meaning can never become completely fixed.

Difference

difference + deferral. Meaning is created through differences between signs. Continually deferred because you can never arrive at one final stable meaning.

Antiessentilism

philosophical belief that things do not have an inherent, unchangeable "essence" or fixed nature.

Logocentrism

you can be both absent and present

Phallocentrism

masculine ways of knowing take priority over feminine ways of knowing

Aporia

irresolvable contradiction

Interdisciplinary

attempting to pull knowledge in between majors, the breaking up of subjects.

Epistemological Hierarchy

The study of knowledge how we know what we know (taught by parents, experiences, or beliefs)