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“You statements” can create ______ in the individuals at which they are directed.

Confusion

Defensiveness

Empathy

Understanding

Answer

Correct Answer: Defensiveness

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The idea that communication is “a game to be played cooperatively, according to socially conventional rules and procedures” aligns with which of the following message design logics?

Expressive

Authentic

Rhetorical

Conventional

Answer

Correct Answer: Conventional

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The expectation that the verbal message we exchange will be truthful is called the ______.

Quality maxim

Quantity maxim

Relevance maxim

Manner maxim

Answer

Correct Answer: Quality maxim

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The cooperative principle describes how people ______.

Usually behave when they interact

Compromise about conversational topics

Organize their points as they present arguments

Balance the give and take as they converse

Answer

Correct Answer: Usually behave when they interact

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Symbols represent the whole idea of something rather than a specific case. This is what makes them ______.

Intentional

Abstract

Relational

Contextual

Answer

Correct Answer: Relational

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Symbols represent the whole idea of something rather than a specific case. This is what makes them ______.

Intentional

Abstract

Relational

Contextual

Answer

Correct Answer: Abstract

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Which message design logics are considered the most persuasive?

Rhetorical

Expressive

Conventional

Relational

Answer

Correct Answer: Rhetorical

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The linguistic relativity hypothesis focuses on ______.

How communicators coordinate their actions

How language creates and shapes our social reality

The relationship between a word and its referent

The connotative rather than denotative meaning of words

Answer

Correct Answer: How language creates and shapes our social reality

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Which example represents a phoneme?

The “pre” in “prepare”

The “counter” in the word “counterclockwise”

The “ness” in happiness

The “ch” in “character”

Answer

Correct Answer: The “ch” in “character”

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Which example represents a phoneme?

The “pre” in “prepare”

The “counter” in the word “counterclockwise”

The “ness” in happiness

The “ch” in “character”

Answer

Correct Answer: The “ch” in “character”

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Which of the following refers to meaning at the level of sentences?

Words

Morphemes

Rhetoric

Syntax

Answer

Correct Answer: Syntax

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Symbols that represent ideas, people, places, or concepts are called ______.

Referents

Words

Phonemes

Letters

Answer

Correct Answer: Words

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Which of the following is an example of inclusive language?

Mothering

Businessman

Humankind

Policeman

Answer

Correct Answer: Humankind

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Which of the following concepts represents things through symbols?

Analog code

Digital code

Referents

Polysemy

Answer

Correct Answer: Digital code

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Arrangement of words meaningfully at the level of sentences is called Syntax

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Symbols are things that represent something else.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Focused, intentional, routine attention to personal details for purposes of influence or control is called

Plagiarism

Chronemics

Scrutiny

Surveillance

Answer

Correct Answer: Surveillance

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Which of the following is not an example of speech acts

A promise

An apology

A greeting

A nod

Answer

Correct Answer: A nod

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Social surveillance is not an online surveillance

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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The study of the meaning of words is known as

Morphemes

Phonemes

Semantics

Emoticon

Answer

Correct Answer: Semantics

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Regulative rules are rules that guide how _________ respond or behave in interactions.

Animals

Fish

Insects

Individuals

Answer

Correct Answer: Individuals

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Referent is the actual object to which the word refers.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Multiple meanings associated with a single word or symbol are called

Polysemy

Multisemy

Polygamy

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Polysemy

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The sounds of a language are called

Morphemes

Phonemes

Emoticons

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Phonemes

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Individuals’ greatest moments of mutual understanding, happiness, and fulfillment in interpersonal communication is known as peak communication experience

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Panopticon is a hypothetical _______ structure designed around a central surveillance tower from which the warden can see into each cell.

Map

Top

Lounge

Prison

Answer

Correct Answer: Prison

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The smallest units of meaning in a language are called

Morphemes

Emoticons

Panopticon

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: None of these

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Message design logics is ___________ to achieve goals

Thinking about communication situations

Choosing which thoughts to express

Deciding how to express thoughts

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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The idea that language creates and shapes social reality is known as

Linguistic relativity hypothesis

Linguistic selective hypothesis

Norm relativity hypothesis

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Linguistic relativity hypothesis

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Language is a system of words represented by symbols

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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In internet of things objects, animals, or people are equipped with unique

Identifiers

Sensors

Ability to transfer data over a network.

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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Inclusive language includes expressions and words that exclude particular groups.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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A broad communication situation created by conversational partners is known as

Dialogue

Episode

Script

Story

Answer

Correct Answer: Episode

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Digital code is a system of representations based on_______.

Letters

Emoticons

Numbers

Symbols

Answer

Correct Answer: Symbols

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Denotative meanings are dictionary definitions

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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The collection and aggregation of personal data provided by users is known as

Plagiarism

Surveillance

Dataveillance

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Dataveillance

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The establishment of rules that help guide people through interactions is known as coordination

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Coordinated management of meaning theory focuses on how communicators move through _____ levels of interpretation to coordinate their actions with one another and to make and manage meanings.

Twelve

Nine

Eight

Seven

Answer

Correct Answer: Eight

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Cooperative principle is the expectation that people will use messages that are __________ and meet the demands of the type or nature of the conversation at hand.

Selective

Informal

Stern

Appropriate

Answer

Correct Answer: Appropriate

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The actual information contained in a spoken or written message is known as

Topic

Subject

Content

Text

Answer

Correct Answer: Content

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Constitutive rules are stipulations for what messages and behaviors count as and how they should be interpreted.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Connotative meanings are formal meanings associated with feelings and personal experiences.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Analog code is based on

Similarity

Simplification

Comparison

None

Answer

Correct Answer: Similarity

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