Chapter 4 Review Questions

What is the difference between analog and digital codes? What are some examples of each? Which is usually associated with verbal codes? With nonverbal codes?
What is a symbol?
What are four characteristics of verbal codes?
What are the functions of language?
Why was Annie Sullivan considered to be a miracle worker?
What did Bunz and Campbell conclude about accommodation in email?
What is the difference between denotation and connotation?
What is the difference between semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic meaning? Why is it important for communicators to be able to assign meaning correctly at each level?
What is CMM theory? What are speech acts, constitutive rules, and regulative rules? What levels of context affect meaning?
What is speaking with names?
What is the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis? What are its two parts? What kinds of examples support Sapir—Whorf?
What is raillery as it applies to conversation? What factors weaken civil conversation today?
What are the characteristics of elaborated codes? of restricted codes? How many speakers of one code perceive speakers of the other?
What are some differences in the vocabulary and syntax of males and females?
What are some pragmatic features of male and female language?
What do critical theorists have to say about language and domination? What is muted-group theory?
What are some examples of sexist language?
What are some good sources of topics in conversations with strangers? What is a closed-ended question? What is an open-ended question? Which is better if your goal is to encourage conversation?
In the Screening Room segment included in Chapter 4, what is the lesson taught by the film, The King’s Speech?
What is free information? Why should it be included in conversations?
What three things should a good conversationalist do in closing a conversation?
What recent criticisms has Elizabeth Aries levied on earlier gender communication theorists?