Exam 5: Verbal Communication

If your interpersonal communication professor seems to really tailor his lectures and examples to the students in his class,he is demonstrating the cooperative principle.

If you and your friend observe a woman order a drink and he says to you,"What a dog" and you understand him to mean she is not very attractive,what type of meaning are you applying?

Connotative meaning when compared to denotative meaning is

Research suggests that during verbal communication men and women respond in a similar manner 99 percent of the time.

Constitutive rules govern how we use language to verbally communicate

Language that attacks a person's attributes._______

Literal,dictionary-based meanings._______

Habitually attacking a person using the Internet,interactive,or digital technologies._______

When one person misperceives another's verbal communication._______

Intentional use of language to misrepresent or mislead others._______

Defamation can be described as

What is considered to be the single most important characteristic of cooperative verbal communication?

Defines with words represent which objects._______

Research suggests we seem to prefer and rate more favorably those who use a dialect similar to our own.

Which strategy can be used to achieve cooperative verbal communication?

Any language has its own rules,such as spelling,grammar,and the way to pronounce words.This demonstrates what language feature?

Men's language style has been stereotypically associated with all of the following EXCEPT

In comparing gender and culture and their impact on verbal communication we can conclude

Using words to represent people,objects,events,and ideas._______

Sarah has a short temper and exclaims,"You are such a moron" to her younger brother.What strategy of cooperative verbal communication is she violating?