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After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

 4.1 Define language, and explain the triangle of meaning.

 4.2 Explain the factors at work in the communication of meaning.

 4.3 Identify problems experienced when attempting to share meaning, including patterns of miscommunication.

 4.4 Discuss the relationship between culture and language.

 4.5 Discuss the relationship between gender and language.

 4.6 Explain how power affects language use.

 4.7 Explain how incivility affects language use.

 4.8 Analyze how technology influences language use.

 4.9 Apply techniques for improving language skills.

Whatever we call a thing, whatever we say it is, it is not. For whatever we say is words, and words are words and not things. The words are maps, and the map is not the territory.

Harry L. Weinberg

In the film Arrival, a linguist stands inside a spaceship separated from two aliens by a glass-like partition. She approaches the aliens, placing her palm against the partition. Her plan to save Earth from presumed annihilation is to communicate with them. Their language, she realizes, is unlike ours. It is based on a nonlinear perception of time, a perception she was able to gather by listening, empathizing, and talking. The linguist used words—not weapons—to save the world.¹