1. Atomistic is breaking down living speech into smaller and smaller bits so we can analyze it.
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True
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2. Verbal Communication is language and other symbol oriented systems of communication.
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True
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3. Speech acts means moments when language accomplishes some action.
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True
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4. A theory that states that some language does more than simply name the state of affairs, but creates them is called ___________ .
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Speech Act Theory
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5. In Saussure’s structural analysis of language, the signifier is the spoken or written representation of something or someone is called _________.
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Signifier
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6. Signified is in Saussure’s structural analysis of language, the signified is the connotative meanings surrounding a word.
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True
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7. ____________ in Saussure’s structural analysis of language, the sign is the signifier and signified together
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Speech Acts
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8. Semiotic Perspective is a structural understanding of language as arbitrary, ambiguous and abstract.
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True
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9. _____________ is the study of the structure of language, analyzing language via the use of symbols and their connected referents.
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Semiotics
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10. Theory that claims that our thoughts shape our reality, our language shapes our thoughts, and, therefore, our language shapes our reality is called __________ .
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Sapir/Whorf Hypothesis
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11. Stewart’s alternative to semiotics, challenging the structural formalism of Saussure is known as :
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Post-Semiotic Approach to Language
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12. Perlocutionary Acts in speech act theory, this is the effect of a given message.
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True
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13. _____________ in speech act theory, words that do not just describe a state of affairs.
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Performative
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14. Locutionary Act in speech act theory, this is the surface level meaning of a speech act.
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True
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15. ___________ in speech act theory, this is the intent of a given message.
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Illocutionary Act
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16. ___________ in speech act theory, words that describe or identify a state of affairs.
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Constatives
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17. ____________ 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 one another in order to make meaning.
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Articulate Contact
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18. ______________________ represents the best work researchers and professors from many different fields of study across the country and around the world have create
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Verbal communication
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19. ______________ are powerful language that create the state of affairs.
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Performatives
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20. 12) ____________________ are words that describe or identify a state of affairs.
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Constatives
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21. The ___________________ refers to the meanings we associate with that wor
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Signified
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22. The ________________ the spoken and/or written representation of something or someone, such as the word “cat.”
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Signifier
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23. Saussure separated and broke down language into 3 interrelated parts that reveal its overall structure or form. Which is NOT one of the parts?
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Signature
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24. Which characteristic is NOT a characteristic of language listed in the text?
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Accommodating
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25. True/False: We can say language is abstract because the words we use are words, they are not the things those words represent.
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True
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26. True/False: We can say language is unambiguous because any given word will represent one definite meaning.
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False
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27. True/False: We can say language is rational because the words we use were, at one time, selected based on logical reasoning.
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False
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28. True/False: Julia Wood describes the semiotic perspective as an understanding of language as arbitrary, ambiguous and abstract.
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True
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29. __________________ was a Swiss linguist who studied semiotics, asking how we could understand language via the use of symbols and their connected referents (i.e., the objects the symbols represent).
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Ferdinand de Saussure
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30. _________________ is the study of the structure of language.
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Semiotics
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31. Scholars in communication refer to the study of language and other symbol oriented systems as ________________.
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Verbal communication
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32. ____________________ are words that describe or identify a state of affairs.
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Constatives
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33. Scholars in communication refer to the study of language and other symbol oriented systems as ________________.
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Verbal communication
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