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Higher Education

Communication in Everyday Life: Chapter 6

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) experience, denotation, connotation
b) appeals based on reasoning, appeals based on emotion, quotatives
c) message, medium, experience
d) referent, thought, symbol

Question 2:


a) transactional words
b) onomatopoeia
c) vocal fry
d) syntactic rules

Question 3:


a) meaning that takes context and relationships into account
b) its literal or dictionary meaning
c) phonology
d) disclaimer

Question 4:


a) Pragmatic
b) Semantic
c) Phonological
d) Syntactic

Question 5:


a) Pragmatic
b) Semantic
c) Phonological
d) Syntactic

Question 6:


a) transactional analysis
b) jargon
c) malapropism
d) linguistic relativity

Question 7:


a) focusses on a positive relationship
b) protects against the risk of making a direct statement
c) focusses on content
d) offers unrestricted and uncontrolled sharing or information on open platforms

Question 8:


a) Deferential language
b) Euphemisms
c) Doublespeak
d) Divergence

Question 9:


a) hedges
b) disclaimers
c) question statements
d) hesitations

Question 10:


a) Malapropisms
b) Doublepseak
c) Metaphors
d) Static evaluation

Question 11:


a) True
b) False

Question 12:


a) True
b) False

Question 13:


a) True
b) False

Question 14:


a) True
b) False

Question 15:


a) True
b) False

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False