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| language that lacks specificity or does not refer to observable behavior or other sensory data |
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| a range of more-to-less-abtract terms describing an event or object |
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| an account that refers only to observable phenomena |
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| accomodating one's speaking style to another person, who usually is desirable or has higher status |
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| a linguistic strategy in which speakers emphasize differences between their communicative style and others' in order to create distance |
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| language that conveys the sender's attitude rather than simplify offering an objective description |
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| language with more than one likely interpretation |
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| words that have more than one dictionary definition |
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| a vague statement that can be interpreted in more than one way |
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| a pleasant-sounding term used in place of a more direct but less pleasant one |
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| a statement that can be verified as being true or false |
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| a culture that avoids direct use of language to express information, especially about relational matters; instead, members of the culture rely on the context of a message to convey meaning |
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| conclusion arrived at from an interpretation of evidence |
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| the specialized vocabulary that is used as a kind of shorthand by people with common backgrounds and experience |
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| a collection of symbols, governed by rules and used to convey messages between individuals |
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| Linguistic Intergroup Bias |
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| the tendency to label people and behaviors in terms that reflect their in-group or outgroup status |
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| a moderate form of linguistic determinism that argues that language exerts a strong influence on the perceptions of the people who speak it |
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| a culture that relies heavily on language to make messages, especially of a relational nature, explicit |
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| a statement based on the speaker's beliefs |
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| linguistic rules governing how sounds are combined to form words |
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| rules that govern how people use language in everyday interaction |
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| words that gain their meaning by comparison |
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| theory that the structure of a language shapes the worldview of its users |
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| rules that govern the meaning of language as opposed to its structure |
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| the social orientation that governs behavior, in contrast to a person's biological gender |
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| language used by a group of people whose members belong to a similar coculture or other group |
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| abritrary contructions that represent a communicator's thoughts |
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| rules that govern the ways in which symbols can be arranged as opposed to the meanings of those symbols |
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