Interpersonal Communication: Chpt. 4-5

5 Written Questions

1. derived from argot, but widely know to the general public
2. personalized terms that are used and accepted by a small group of people (exp. just you and your friends use)
3. Rules used to guide online communication
4. the idea that language choices can subtly reflect bias against others
5. describes the reason why we choose certain stimuli over others

5 Matching Questions

1. disclaimers
2. metastereotypes
3. Characteristics of Language
4. syntax rules
5. whorf-sapir hypothesis

1. a say that language helps to shape our reality *language is necessary in order to express thoughts
2. b symbolic, subjective, rule-governed, contextual, creative
3. c any time you use words that disclaim what your saying-"you don't have to believe me, but i just saw a ghost"
4. d perceptions that one group has of the stereotypes that other groups have of their group
5. e rules of where words go in a sentence

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. terms that are substituted for offensive words
   1. idioms
   2. Qualifiers
   3. schemata
   4. euphemisms
2. adding unneeded words to make it more intense. exp. i love her sooo much!
   1. disclaimers
   2. intensifiers
   3. idioms
   4. Qualifiers
3. Ways of speaking that take away power from what your saying
   1. disclaimers
   2. Qualifiers
   3. euphemisms
   4. scripts
4. Guidelines that reduce ambiguity by highlighting how relationships affect meaning
   1. semantic rules
   2. syntax rules
   3. Pragmatic rules
   4. Communicare
5. assigns meaning and value to the stimuli that we have selected and organized, usually by comparing and contrasting them
   1. interpretation
   2. Polarization
   3. Perception
   4. Denotative

5 True/False Questions

1. Compound Requests → to make common

   True        False

2. tag questions → How we organize stimuli based on patterns (schemata, scripts, prototypes, stereotypes)

   True        False

3. Perceptual constancy → the tendency to see what you expect

   True        False

4. idioms → an expression whose meaning cannot be deduced from the literal definitions and the arrangements of its parts, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is know only through common use

   True        False

5. ultra-politeness → Asking a question to ask a question. exp. excuse me, can i ask you a question?

   True        False