Exam 5: Communicating with Words

This "model" illustrates the relationship that exists among words, things, and thoughts.

For Americans, a key function of speech is to prevent silence.

The language and wording used to describe people in media and on the Internet reflect what kind of (or whose) judgments of worth and importance?

Our words rarely announce our attitudes toward people or situations.

While we use emotive language when we want to mask or conceal our real meaning, we use euphemisms to editorialize on our feelings.

These are letter combinations or spoken sounds that were arbitrarily selected at some point to stand for the things or referents about which we speak.

_________________ influences both human thought and meaning, and mediates between symbols and the ideas they represent.

The words we use reflect and affect our feelings, thoughts, and actions as well as the feelings, thoughts, and actions of others.

We tend to feel negativity toward someone if they do not use grammatically correct language.

______________________ oriented individuals are easily fooled by words and labels and as a result fail to inspect what the label represents.

This code establishes that words have both denotative and connotative meanings and that they represent or symbolize reality.

If we use language that has more than one interpretation, and it leaves both parties confused at the end of a conversation, we have just used what kind of language?

It is often easy to find "opposite" or "polarized" words when describing someone or some situation. (For example, we are either happy or sad.) Please explain why those words in the middle are much easier to identify.

There are two distinct types of bypassing. Please explain them.

These three codes help us to explain how words came to have meaning; what are they?

To use language more effectively, we need to ensure the following:

If you change how you talk, you can, ultimately, change the way you think.

This occurs when we think we understand one another, but instead, miss one another's meaning.

Words are reality; they represent it.

When we make "blanket judgments," we tend to think in generalities, thereby ignore ___________________.