Linguistics Questions
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Which of the following is a form of primarily nonverbal communication?
What communication technique is recommended in response to ambiguous nonverbal communication?
rate, pitch, tempo and volume are all aspects of ____________?
Stella reads various genres of books, but the ones exhibited on her bookshelf in her office are exclusively academic and scholarly. This is a form of impression management based on ____________.
When professor Martinez looked out at the class during her lecture, she noticed David slouched in his set and assumed he was bored. David's nonverbal behavior is an example of which category?
The type of communication in which one person or group delivers a message face-to-face to an audience is
How does each level of influence affect our willingness to alter our thinking or behavior?
Communicators always share the same context when communicating with one another.
Only communicators who speak multiple languages have to decide how they will encode their message; if you only speak one language, encoding is easy.
One of the most important defining characteristics of the transactional model of communication is that it allows for __________ feedback.
Public speaking skills can help individuals create awareness for important issues facing their communities.
Television, radio, books, billboards, magazines, and the internet are all forms of mass communication.
Public speaking principles do not apply to interpersonal and small group situations
The first step in the speech preparation process is to
When delivering a speech, we normally receive feedback through __________ channels.
Mass communication is most often best represented by the linear, or action, model of communication.
Context, in relation to the communication models, refers to the physical setting, the rules that govern our different types of relationships, and the broader current and cultural environment in which a communication exchange takes place.
The sender of a message decodes it before deciding upon which channel to use.
A degree in which a participant is more dominant/powerful than the other
A system of shared beliefs, values, symbols and behaviors