Across
- 2. A specialized vocabulary shared and understood by members of particular occupational groups.
- 6. How meaning is created by the rules we use to manage talk and create our social realities.
- 9. Words based on sense data.
- 13. Rules refer to what symbols or words mean.
Down
- 1. Refers to "making meaning" and is coordinated by the rules we use to manage talk and create our social realities.
- 3. Occurs when we believe it's possible to know everything about a person, place, or thing and we draw conclusions based on evidence that is unsufficient and biased.
- 4. Rules that specify how symbols are arranged.
- 5. Concept that refers to levels of specificity in language. In general, highly connotative words also tend to be highly abstract.
- 7. Words or phrases that are used with specific meaning in particular language and culture.
- 8. Talking about people (rather than talking against them).
- 10. Meaning that is emotional, personal, and that engenders disagreement.
- 11. Replace words associated with unpleasant and negative connotations with those associated with pleasant or nuetral connotations.
- 12. Meaning that is considered to be "correct" and that is found in dictionaries.
- 13. A specialized vocabulary shared by people with similar expiriences and interests.
- 14. Refers to the idea that coherence and coordination are arbitrary and are created by language; the words we use not only create and name things in our expirience of reality but also limit them and can make them invisible.