Language and Culture

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Across
  1. 3. Contact In Stewart's post-semiotic approach to language, this term represents the idea that language is a living process that requires speakers to negotiate with each other to make meaning.
  2. 5. The spoken or written representation of something or someone.
  3. 6. Hypothesis Theory that claims our thoughts shape our reality, our language shapes our thoughts, and, therefore, our language shapes our reality.
  4. 7. Study of the structure of language, analyzing language via the symbols and their connected referents.
  5. 8. The connotative meaning surrounding a word.
Down
  1. 1. The breaking down of living speach into smaller and smaller bits for analysis
  2. 2. In speech acct theory, words that do not just describe a state of affairs but also create them.
  3. 4. This four letter word is the signifier and signified together.