Chapter 4 Essay Quiz

Chapter 4 Essay Quiz

Question 2.22

1. For what reasons do we learn to use language appropriately and effectively?
To influence or control others, our environment, and ourselves. To give and receive information. To express our feelings. To express creativity and to imagine. To learn the rules for managing conversations and relationships.

Question 2.23

2. Some communication situations may call for what three types of abstractions?
Evasion, Equivocation, Euphemisms

Question 2.24

3. Describe the difference between high and low language.
High language is formal, polite, or “mainstream” and is used in more formal contexts. Low language is informal and easygoing, frequently involves slang, and is used in more comfortable environments.

Question 2.25

4. Identify the areas where conversation style may be different for masculine and feminine communicators, especially when power or control are involved.
Interruptions. Intensifiers. Qualifiers, hedges, and disclaimers. Tag questions. >Resistance messages

Question 2.26

5. What are the two main types of grammar rules, as described in the text?
Phonological rules (rules about how words should be pronounced). Syntactic rules (rules about the placement of words in a sentence)