Identity & Perspective
Building Blocks
Building Blocks
Complex Practices
Complex Practices
100
This kind of identity is situation and relationship specific.
What is interactional identity?
100
This concept states that our language affects how we think.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
100
Courtroom testimony and organizational meetings use this kind of turn taking.
What is preallocated turn-taking?
100
True or false: everyone has a conversational style.
What is true?
100
The language philosopher Bakhtin developed this concept.
What is genre?
200
This can be a problem when you presume what you know is natural and is the only way that a particular identity can be related to a particular practice.
What is tacit knowledge?
200
This type of speech act obligates a person to a future action. E.g. making a promise.
What is commissive?
200
In transcription punctuation is used for this purpose.
What is to mark changes in intonation?
200
This is the communicative display a person makes toward an event, issue, or person.
What is stance?
200
This is the term that represents wise communication, which can help us to navigate communication dilemmas.
What is phronesis?
300
Speech communities go with this perspective.
What is the cultural perspective?
300
This kind of speech act reports on the state of things.
What is representative?
300
Several people talking at the same time is called this.
What is choral talk?
300
This kind of politeness style tends to recognize a listener's positive face wants, use in-group markers like "we", and the speaker might match the listener's dialect.
What is involvement politeness style?
300
This complex discourse practice must be "occasioned".
What is a narrative?
400
Metaphor goes with this perspective.
What is the rhetorical perspective?
400
Name 3 of the 5 naming categories.
What is versions of proper names, kinship terms, titles, nicknames and endearments, and choice of second-person pronouns?
400
The following is an example of this concept: A Mexican mom spoke in Spanish then in English to her son to tell him not to run near the pool.
What is code-switching?
400
When one uses this kind of form, they are portraying something as normal or usual.
What is an unmarked form?
400
The following statement is an example of this concept: And he said "Yeah, we don't care."
What is direct reported speech?
500
The following statements best represents this concept: It is important for a couple to live together before getting married. It is rude to talk about money in front of people who aren't close family.
What is interpersonal ideologies?
500
"Black diamond", "carve", and "powder" are all examples of this.
What is jargon?
500
The following represents this concept: Mar was transferred from Houston, Texas to Manila, Philippines for her job. In order to gain acceptance and decrease the social distance between her and some of her new colleagues she learns Tagalog to talk with them.
What is communication accommodation?
500
The following is an example of this concept: Jack always forgets to put the milk back in the fridge.
What is an extreme case formulation?
500
The following represents this genre: A person walks into the room, calls the group to order, and starts to introduce topics from a list that was compiled beforehand. The person directs who has the floor at any one moment. After all the topics have been covered, the person adjourns the event.
What is an organizational meeting?
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