Exam 4: Language: the Code of Persuasion

Sigmund Freud said, "Anatomy is destiny."

Walter Lippmann believed that wars encouraged envenomed and impassioned nonsense, but which of the following is the solution?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention on women's rights despite the threat her husband made that he would leave town if she did this.

Explain the denotative, connotative, and functional axes of words. Give examples within each category to strengthen your answer.

The examination of labels and stereotypes is part of the Black Power movement, the women's movement, and the gay rights movement.

Alfred Korzybski started the semanticist movement. Which of the following ideas is he most associated with?

Children chant "sticks and stones may break our bones, but words can never hurt us," and this is true.

The United States is becoming increasingly bilingual, with Spanish challenging the dominant culture.

The average high school-educated audience of mass media broadcasts prefers a speaker who talks around 170 words per minute.

John Condon said that words give us the freedom to describe the world and to capture that reality perfectly.

Ossie Davis in a speech declared that his enemy as an Afro-American was which of the following?

Explain what Walter Lippmann's "public philosophy" was and why he felt it was necessary; then take a critical position on his proposal by evaluating it for today's linguistic environment.

The feminine model for speech according to Borisloff and Merrill is direct, confrontational, forceful, and logical speech.

Metaphors have which of the following powers according to Lakoff?

Explain what general semantics is and include in your answer the views of Alfred Korzybski, John Condon, and Wittgenstein from this chapter.

School shooters are frequently students who have been bullied and tormented with names or labels.

Words do more damage to people than things in our culture according to Eldon Taylor.

Alfred Korzybski was a mad scientist who believed that if we used the scientific method we could cure insanity.

Cheris Kamarae claimed that challenging the linguistic system as well as the structures and institutions it produces, such as education, politics, religion, and the economic system, would reveal what?

Rush Limbaugh used reasoned speech to reach his audience without the infusion of emotional language.