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Meanings are in _____, not in words. |
| | A) | Objects |
| | B) | Nature |
| | C) | Communication |
| | D) | People |
| | E) | None of the Above |
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In C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards' triangle of meaning, the three points are: thought, word, and _____. |
| | A) | Person |
| | B) | Meaning |
| | C) | Thing |
| | D) | Perception |
| | E) | None of the above |
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Alfred Korzbski and S. I. Hayakawa devised an abstraction _____. |
| | A) | Circle |
| | B) | Triangle |
| | C) | Square |
| | D) | Hexagon |
| | E) | None of the above |
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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis says that the labels we use help shape _____. |
| | A) | The way we think |
| | B) | Our worldview |
| | C) | Our behavior |
| | D) | All of the above |
| | E) | None of the above |
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Linguistic prejudice downplays any _____ between people of different groups. |
| | A) | Differences |
| | B) | Similarities |
| | C) | Gaps |
| | D) | Hostility |
| | E) | None of the above |
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Women tend to use more tentative phrases, or _________, in their speech than men do. |
| | A) | Qualifiers |
| | B) | Disqualifiers |
| | C) | Code words |
| | D) | Disclaimers |
| | E) | None of the above. |
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_____ occurs when individuals think they understand each other but actually miss each other's meaning. |
| | A) | A spoonerism |
| | B) | Bypassing |
| | C) | Intentional orientation |
| | D) | Extensional orientation |
| | E) | None of the above |
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William Lutz officially coined the term _____ to describe euphemisms. |
| | A) | Carefulspeak |
| | B) | Defensespeak |
| | C) | Passivespeak |
| | D) | Doublespeak |
| | E) | None of the above |
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The use of sexist and racist language tends to be __________ among members of online communities. |
| | A) | Rampant |
| | B) | Rare |
| | C) | Slightly more common |
| | D) | Slightly less common |
| | E) | None of the above |
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_____ words are those that have highly negative connotations. |
| | A) | Bark words |
| | B) | Growl words |
| | C) | Roar words |
| | D) | All of the above |
| | E) | None of the above |
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To communicate, you translate the meaning you want to express into language so that the other person will respond to it by forming a meaning similar to yours. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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A denotative meaning is a one's personal meaning for a word, and not necessarily the dictionary meaning. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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On the abstraction ladder devised by Alfred Korzbski and S. I. Hayakawa, low-level abstractions function as a kind of verbal shorthand. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Linguistic relativity is the belief that persons who speak different languages will perceive the world differently. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Recently, the courts have ruled that racial code words, such as "you people" or "one of them," are discriminatory and help create a racially hostile environment. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Men tend to use more tag questions and disclaimers than women. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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When people use intensional orientation, they are focusing on the world of experience; thus, they are not blinded by labels. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Jacques Barson once said, "Simple English is simple to use." |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Symbols and their representations are completely independent of one another. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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John Condon, author of Semantics and Communication, advises, "Learning to use language intelligently begins by learning how to be used by language." |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education