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Communication (Interpersonal) Quiz # 5

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Quiz: Communication (Interpersonal) Quiz # 5
Subject: Communication Verbally
Total Questions: 30 MCQs
Time: 30 Minutes

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Communication (Interpersonal) Quiz # 5
Question 1 of 30
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  • Developing an understanding of the speaker’s meaning based on hearing language is called

  • Denotative meaning is the literal, conventional meaning that most people in a culture have agreed to be the meaning of a symbol. Denotation is the type of meaning found in a dictionary definition.

  • Occurs when someone feels ignored and disregarded. Disconfirmation makes people feel that you don’t see them—that they are unimportant is called

  • A process described in Communication Accommodation Theory involving speaking in a way that highlights the differences between two people’s speaking styles.

  • Putting our thoughts into meaningful language is known as

  • A type of ambiguity involving choosing your words carefully to give a listener a false impression without actually lying is called

  • A kind of equivocation using milder or less direct words substituted for other words that are more blunt or negative is called

  • A word with the fewest restrictions in terms of possible referents is called

  • The rule in English grammar, dating from 1553, requiring the masculine pronoun he to function generically when the subject of the sentence is not known to be a woman or man in generic he

  • Refers to the set of rules in a specific language dictating how words should be organized is called

  • A word or a phrase that has an understood meaning within a culture, but that meaning doesn’t come from exact translation is called

  • Acknowledging the time frame of your judgments of others and yourself is known as

  • Consists of both verbal symbols and grammar; it enables us to engage in meaning making with others is called

  • Experiences and ideas that aren’t named in a language is called

  • Sometimes called the “strong form” of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it refers to the notion that without a word in your language for a thing/ idea, you cannot perceive that thing/idea in the linguistic determinism

  • Sometimes called the “weak form” of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it refers to the notion that while language doesn’t completely determine your thinking, it strongly influences it known as

  • Words—such as chairman, salesman, repairman, mailman, and mankind—that include the word man but are supposed to operate generically to include women as well in

  • A theory explaining what happens to people whose experiences are not well represented by the verbal symbols in their language is called

  • A verbal ritual where each person’s negative comment is matched by the following speaker’s negative comment in

  • Acknowledging the viewpoints of those with whom you interact is called

  • Idiomatic communication used for interpersonal contact only which communication?

  • When people utilize the either/or aspect of the English language and use words that cast topics in extremes in polarization

  • The thing the word represents is called

  • The tendency to respond to words, or labels for things, rather than the things themselves is called

  • The use of one term with a positive connotation and its supposed parallel term with a negative connotation (e.g., master and mistress) in Semantic derogation

  • Language that is demeaning to one sex is called

  • A word with a restricted number of possible referents is called

  • Groups who share norms about how to speak; what words to use; and when, where, and why to speak is called

  • When words conceal change; when we speak and respond to people today the same way we did many years ago is called

  • The lack of clarity people use intentionally when they do not want others to completely understand their intentions is called

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