Chapter 4 True/False Self-Quiz

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

. Syntactic meaning is meaning based on word order.

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

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

. Elaborated codes are well designed for use with strangers.

. Men tend to use more qualifiers than do women.

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

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

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

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

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