Chapter 3: Communication

Question 1

Backchanneling

Answer 1

Showing active participation by way of verbal or non-verbal responses

Question 2

Complementary Schismogenesis

Answer 2

When people have a hard time communicating because of different communication styles/cultural norms. Responding to the other’s behavior by increasing their own opposing behavior (ex. one speaks louder and louder while the other speaks more quietly)

Question 3

Deafcentric

Answer 3

Mindset expressing collectivist Deaf culture. Semantic intent of specific lexical items that are unique because they relate to Deaf Culture/community. Ex. “mainstreamed” with a Deafcentric meaning

Question 4

Ingroup Speak

Answer 4

When members of a community, group, organization use terms with a unique/different meaning compared to general society

Question 5

Interlocuters

Answer 5

The people involved in a conversation

Question 6

Minority Group

Answer 6

(minoritized) a group of people oppressed due to physical, linguistic, cultural differences to that of the dominant group

Question 7

Register

Answer 7

Variations of language use based on social situations (frozen, formal, consultative, casual/informal, and intimate). The way we use language with an authority figure is different to the way we use it with a best friend

Question 8

Sociolinguistics

Answer 8

How factors like participants, setting, topics, purpose, and relationships among interlocutors influence communication

Question 9

Third Culture

Answer 9

The intersection of two dissimilar communities. Home and host cultures. Members of third cultures makes it so those of each group can experiences the cultural practices and ways of being of each group. (ex. interpreters and the Deaf community)

Question 10

Jargon

Answer 10

Distinctive terminology used within professional circles. Usually connotes an atypical meaning to outsiders (ex. feed, team, voice, consumer, hearing, terp)

Question 11

Metamessage

Answer 11

What is communicated about relationships- attitudes toward each other, occasion, and what we are saying (Tannen). (ex. growling someone’s name has metamessage of anger, and rolling eyes has metamessage of annoyance)