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Chapter 5: Language Flashcards

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Relative words

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Gain their meaning by comparison

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Static evaluation

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Statements that contain or imply the word is led to the mistaken assumption

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Abstract language

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Vague in nature

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Behavioral language

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Refers to specific things that people say or do

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Abstraction ladder

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Illustrates how the same phenomenon can be described as there is levels of specificity and abstraction

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Syntactic rules

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Govern the grammar of a language

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Pragmatic rules

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Decide how to interpret messages in a given context

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Convergence

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The process of adopting one speech style to match that of others

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Divergence

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Speaking in a way that emphasizes their differences from others

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Powerless speech mannerisms

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Apologetic and uncertain speech

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Emotive language

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Seems to describe something that actually announces the speakers attitude toward it

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“It” statements

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Replace the personal pronoun i with the less immediate word it

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“I” language

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Clearly identifies the speaker as a source of a message

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“But” statements

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Explains why

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“You” language

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Express is a judgment of the other person

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“We” language

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Implies that the issue isThe concern and responsibility of both the speaker in the receiver of a message

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Low context cultures

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Generally value using language to express thoughts feelings and ideas as directly as possible

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High context cultures

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Value using language to maintain social harmony

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Linguistic relativism

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They worldview of a culture is shaped and reflected by the language its members speak

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Sapir-whorf hypothesis

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The best known declaration of linguistic relativism

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Equivocal language

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Statements that have more than one commonly accepted definition

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