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This refers to technical terms whose meanings are understood only by a select group of people based on their shared activity or interests.
What is Jargon?
This refers to informal vocabulary developed and used by particular groups in society.
What is Slang?
This means choosing language and symbols that are adapted to the needs, interests, knowledge, and attitudes of the listeners and avoiding language that alienates them.
What is Speaking Appropriately?
This is both a body of symbols (most commonly words) and the systems for their use in messages that are common to the people of the same speech community.
What is Language?
These are symbols used by a speech community to represent objects, ideas, and feelings.
What are Words?
This is a group of people who speak the same language.
What is a Speech Community? (and/or language community)
A direct comparison of dissimilar things and is usually expressed with the words like or as.
What is a Simile?
The weight or importance given to certain words or ideas.
What is Emphasis?
The process of putting our thoughts and feelings into words and nonverbal cues.
What is Encoding?
The process of interpreting another's message.
What is Decoding?
These are two out of the five largest speech communities in the world.
What are Mandarin Chinese, English, Spanish, Arabic, and Hindi?
A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared. Instead of saying one thing is like another, this figure of speech says that one thing is another.
What is a Metaphor?
Any stimulus that interferes with the process of sharing meaning.
What is Noise?
Systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people.
What is Culture?
A set of moral principles that may be held by a society, group, or individual.
What is Ethics?
The settings in which communication occurs, including what precedes and follows what is said.
What is context?
Reactions and responses to messages.
What is Feedback?
A perception of a speaker's knowledge, trustworthiness, and warmth.
What is Credibility?
This is communicating without anxiety or nervousness.
What is Social Ease?
The internal process of observing and regulating your own behavior based on your analysis of the situation and others' responses to you.
What is Self-monitoring?
The direct, explicit meaning a speech community formally gives a word.
What is denotation?
The feelings or evaluations we associate with a word.
What is connotation?
The gap between our inaccurate self-perceptions and reality.
What is Incongruence?
These are events that happen as the result of being foretold, expected, or talked about. They may be self-created or other-imposed.
What are Self-fulfilling prophecies?
These are two of the five ethical standards that influence or communication and guide our behavior.
What are Truthfulness, Integrity, Fairness, Respect, and Responsibility?