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When a coworker says to you, "You're an idiot," and you immediately respond, "You make morons look intelligent," this is an example of |
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| | A) | symbol reaction |
| | B) | false dichotomy |
| | C) | mislabeling |
| | D) | signal reaction |
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Which of the following distinguish denotations from connotations? |
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| | A) | denotations are accurate meaning; connotations are inaccurate meaning |
| | B) | denotations are abstract meaning; connotations are concrete meaning |
| | C) | denotations are dictionary meaning; connotations are shared meaning |
| | D) | denotations are shared meaning; connotations are private meaning |
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3 | |
"The Elaboration Likelihood model would place cognitive dissonance in the central route to persuasion" is an example of |
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| | A) | euphemism |
| | B) | incompetent use of language |
| | C) | jargon |
| | D) | false dichotomy |
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4 | |
"A person is an adult when they reach the age of 18" is |
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| | A) | an operational definition |
| | B) | a connotation |
| | C) | dead-level abstracting |
| | D) | displacement |
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5 | |
The characteristics of symbols include |
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| | A) | naturalness |
| | B) | inherency |
| | C) | arbitrariness |
| | D) | representativeness |
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6 | |
"Woof" is the word we often use to communicate the sound of a dog. This is |
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| | A) | an arbitrary approximation of the sound of a dog |
| | B) | a connotation |
| | C) | not a word; merely a phoneme |
| | D) | the actual sound a dog makes; no other word, even in other languages, could be used to represent this sound |
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7 | |
Displacement is |
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| | A) | self-reflexive use of language |
| | B) | the productivity of every language |
| | C) | a kind of descriptive grammar |
| | D) | using language to communicate about events that aren't happening in front of you and may not occur ever |
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8 | |
Morphemes are |
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| | A) | the smallest units of sound in a language |
| | B) | the smallest units of meaning in a language |
| | C) | composed of words, prefixes, and suffixes |
| | D) | the rules that govern appropriate use of language |
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9 | |
"Antidisestablishmentarianism" has how many morphemes? |
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| | A) | 3 |
| | B) | 4 |
| | C) | 6 |
| | D) | 7 |
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The lexicon of a language is |
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| | A) | the total vocabulary |
| | B) | the set of rules for prescriptive grammar |
| | C) | the morphemic structure |
| | D) | the gender-biased references found in every language |
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11 | |
Dictionary definitions are the source of most signal reactions. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Humans can think without language. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Using language to shape meaning for others is called self-reflexiveness. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The meaning of a word resides in the word itself; our task is to discover that inherent meaning. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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There are three dimensions of connotative meaning: productivity, displacement, and representativeness. |
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| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |