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| A statement in which the word but cancels out the expression preceding it |
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Statements that replace the personal pronoun "I" with the less immediate word "it," often
reducing the speaker's acceptance of responsibility for the statement |
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Statement that implies that the issue is the concern and responsibility of both the speaker and
receiver of a message |
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| A statement that expresses or implies a judgement of the other person |
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| Language that is vague and general rather than concrete and specific. |
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| A range of more to less abstract terms describing an event or oject. |
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| An account that refers only to observable phenomena |
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| Language that describes observable behavior |
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The process of adapting one's speech style to match that of others with whom the
communicator wants to identify |
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| Language mannerisms that emphasize a communicator's differences from others |
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| Language that conveys the sender's attitude rather than simply offers an objective description |
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| Ambiguous language that has two or more equally plausible meanings |
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The notion that the worldview of a culture is shaped and reflectedby the language its members
speak. See also Sapir-Whorf hypothesis |
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powerless
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| Ways of speaking that may reduce perceptions of a communicator's power |
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Linguistic rules that help communicators understand how messages may be used and
interpretated in a given context |
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| Words that gain their meaning by comparison |
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| Theory of linguistic relativity in which language shapes a culture's perceived reality |
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| Rules that govern the meaning of language as opposed to its structure. See also syntactic rules |
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| The tendency to view people or relationships as unchanging |
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Rules that govern the ways symbols can be arranged, as opposed to the meanings of those
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| Occurs when sense is made of a message |
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