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Language
Nonverbal Communication
Listening
Communication and Relational Dynamics
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The process of adapting one's speech style to match that of others with whom the communicator wants to identify.
What is convergence
100
A gesture that accompanies speech but doesn't stand on its own.
What is an illustrator
100
A listening style in which the receiver is more converned with making his or her won point than in understanding the speaker.
What is stage-hogging
100
The degree to which a persons like or appreciate on another.
What is affinity
100
Ways of speaking that may reduce perceptions of a communicator's power.
What is powerless speech mannerisms
200
Involves speaking with rich and expressive terms, sometimes involving strong assertions and exaggerations.
What is elaborateness
200
Nonverbal behavior that includes having a foreign accent.
What is paralanguage
200
A style in which the receiver ignores undesirable information.
What is insulated listening
200
The tension between the need for disclosure and the need for secrecy in a relationship.
What is openness-privacy dialectic
200
Language that conveys the sender's attitude rather than simply offers an objective description.
What is emotive language
300
In language use make less of the feeling or intention statement such as "I'm rather upset."
What is hedges
300
The distance zone identified by Hall that ranges from four to about twelve feet.
What is social
300
Questions that disguise the speaker's true motives, which do not include a genuine desire to understand the other person.
What is counterfeit questions
300
The degree of interest and attention that we feel toward and communicate to others.
What is immediacy
300
The tension between the need for integration and the need for independence in a relationship.
What is connection-autonomy dialectic
400
Linguistic rules that help communicators understand how messages may be used and interpreted in a given context.
What is pragmatic rules
400
A deliberate, nonverbal behavior that has a very precise meaning known to virtually everyone within a cultural group.
What is emblem
400
Failure to recognize the thoughts or feelings that are not directly expressed by a speaker.
What is insensitive listening
400
A stage of relational develpment in which the parties begin to take on a single identity.
What is integrating
400
A style in which the receiver listens carefully in order to gather information to use in an attack on the speaker.
What is ambushing
500
Theory of linguistic relativity in which language shapes a culture's perceived reality.
What is Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
500
The distance zone identified by Hall that ranges from eighteen inches to four feet and includes behavior found in most social conversations.
What is personal
500
An imitation of true listening in which the receiver's mind is elsewhere.
What is pseudolistening
500
A stage of relational deterioration in which parteners begin to reduce the scope of their contact and commitment to one another.
What is circumscribing
500
An attraction variable in which people are different in ways that meet each of their needs.
What is complementarity