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. When Arthur thinks of baseball, he thinks of happy childhood experiences. This is an example of connotative meaning.

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. Syntactic meaning is meaning based on word order.

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. When your brother teases you, it means he cares," is an example of a constitutive rule.

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. In Western Apache culture, comforting means speaking directly about what is troubling someone and offering them direct advice

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. Elaborated codes are well designed for use with strangers.

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. Men tend to use more qualifiers than do women.

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. Free information should be used in conversation because it encourages communication.

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. Verbal codes allow us to metacommunicate; it is difficult to metacommunicate nonverbally.

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. The differences between male and female communication styles are related to power and social status.

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. Muted group theorists suggest that women talk more than do men, especially in public situations.

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