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_________________ is the study of how meaning is constructed in relation to receivers, how language is actually used in particular contexts in language communities. |
| | A) | Semantics |
| | B) | Syntactics |
| | C) | Pragmatics |
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_________________ This style emphasizes understanding messages without direct verbal communication. Often people in long-term relationships communicate in this style. |
| | A) | Elaborate |
| | B) | High-context |
| | C) | Direct |
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_________________ refers to the process of learning another language. |
| | A) | Multilingual |
| | B) | Bilingual |
| | C) | Language Acquisition |
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_________________ are laws or customs that emerge to determine which language is to be spoken where and when. |
| | A) | Language Policies |
| | B) | Translation |
| | C) | Interpretation |
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_________________ is changing form one language or communication style to another. |
| | A) | call and response |
| | B) | code-switching |
| | C) | Third culture style |
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_________________ is the study of meaning - that is, how words communicate the meaning we intend to get across in our communication. |
| | A) | Syntactics |
| | B) | Pragmatics |
| | C) | Semantics |
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_________________ is the study of the sound system of language - how words are pronounced, which units of sounds (phonemes) are meaningful for a specific language, and which sounds are universal. |
| | A) | Syntactics |
| | B) | Phonology |
| | C) | Semantics |
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_________________ These are places from which we speak that are socially constructed and thus embedded with assumptions about gender, race, class, age, social roles, sexuality, and so on. |
| | A) | cocultural groups |
| | B) | social positions |
| | C) | third culture style |
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_________________ This cocultural communication orientation involves trying to strike a balance between the concerns of cocultural and dominant group members. |
| | A) | aggressive assimilation strategies* |
| | B) | aggressive accommodation strategies |
| | C) | assertive accommodation strategies |
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_________________ strategies are employed by individuals who assume that some segregation is part of everyday life in the United States. |
| | A) | Nonassertive separation |
| | B) | Assertive separation |
| | C) | Aggressive separation |
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