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Nature of Language
Appreciating the Power of Words
The Use and Abuse of Language
Improving Your Language Use
Potent Potables
100
Word formed by imitating the sound associated with its meaning
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
Perception to be confident and trustworthy
What is Credibility?
100
Reducing negative effect of certain terms by using them often
What is Reclaiming the Term?
100
Inappropriately dominating a conversation
What is the Monopolization Error?
100
SNL Unabbreviated
What is Saturday Night Live?
200
Broader category or organizing concept of objects
What is Abstract?
200
Close, supportive relationships
What is Intimacy?
200
Words that serve to assist in a informal social setting or dialouge
What is Social Lubricant?
200
Claiming ownership of one's thoughts or feelings
What is an I-statement?
200
Infamous white haired contestant on the famous SNL skit Jeopardy
Who is Alex Trebek?
300
Idea that language shapes our views of reality
What is Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
300
Ability to enhance credibility by speaking in a familiar dialect to audience
What is Communication Accommodation Theory?
300
A written defamatory statement
What is Libel?
300
True or false in an absolute sense
What is a factual claim?
300
Full college name
What is South Central Kentucky Community and Technical College
400
Portrays necessary elements for the meaning in language
What is the Semantic Triangle?
400
Intentionally misleading terms and phrases
What are Weasel Words?
400
Speech used to dehumanize or degrade
What is Hate Speech?
400
Expresses a personal judgement or preference
What is an Opinion?
400
Famous actor who is the show host of the famous SNL skit Jeopardy
Who is Will Ferrell?
500
Study of Language
What is Linguistics?
500
Art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing
What is Rhetoric?
500
Amendment regarding free speech
What is the First Amendment?
500
Misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense
What is Equivocation?
500
Uncommon name for alcoholic beverages
What are Potent Potables?