SYWTBAI Ch 1

Question 1

Why is communication access so important?

Answer 1

It is the primary way relationships are formed and maintained

Question 2

What is included in non-verbal cues?

Answer 2

facial expressions, gestures, body posture, vocal tones, etc

Question 3

What makes up a contextual enviornment?

Answer 3

Physical location and personal history

Question 4

What are the different types of “noise”?

Answer 4

External noise, physiological noise, and psychological noise.

Question 5

What factors make up a message’s meaning?

Answer 5

Speakers goal, context, directness, power dynamics, register, etc

Question 6

What dictates how we interact with people of higher or lower status?

Answer 6

Social and cultural norms

Question 7

What is equivocal language

Answer 7

Deliberate use of words/signs to be interpreted in more than one way

Question 8

What is euphemistic language

Answer 8

Socially acceptable terms in place of blunt/descriptive ones

Question 9

What is abstract language?

Answer 9

deliberately vague language

Question 10

what is passive voice

Answer 10

Language where the person or thing performing the action is not explicitly stated