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Communication | - | Correct | answer | ✔A | social | process | in | which | individuals | employ | symbols | to | establish | and | interpret | meaning | in | their | environment. |
- | Takes | place | between | 2 | people | -There | is | an | exchange | of | messages | and | ideas | -Both | people | participate -There | is | shared | code Theory | - | Correct | answer | ✔A | set | of | systematic | informed | hunches | about | the | way | things | operate Characteristics | of | Theories | - | Correct | answer | ✔-theories | as | nets | = | different | theories | capture | different | types | of | communication | -theories | as | lenses | = | theories | shape | our | perception | by | focusing | attention | on | some | features | of | communication | while | ignoring | other | features | -theories | as | maps= | theories | serve | as | a | way | for | us | to | navigate | different | communication | contexts | and | relationships Contexts | (7) | - | Correct | answer | ✔1. | Intrapersonal |
- | Interpersonal |
- | Small | group
- | Organizational |
- | public/ | retorical |
- | Mass/Media |
- | Cultural Approaches | (2) | - | Correct | answer | ✔1. | objective
- | Interpretive
- | Critical Communication | Accommodation | Theory | - | Correct | answer | ✔:) book | example | - | Correct | answer | ✔luke | is | speaking | spanish | in | interview Accommodation | - | Correct | answer | ✔Adjusting, | modifying, | or | regulating | communication | in | response | to | others. | -Explores | the | motivations | and | consequences | of | speakers | adjusting | their | communication/behavior | with | others -Verbal/non | verbal Who | forwarded | CAT | - | Correct | answer | ✔Howard | Giles
Assumption | 1 | of | CAT | - | Correct | answer | ✔Speech | and | behavioral | similarities | and | dissimilarities | exist | in | all | conversations | -Interactants | have | different | experiences | and | backgrounds | -Experiences | and | backgrounds | influence | level | of | accommodation Assumption | 2 | of | CAT | - | Correct | answer | ✔The | way | we | perceive | the | speech | and | behaviors | of | others | will | determine | how | we | evaluate | a | conversation Perception | - | Correct | answer | ✔The | process | of | attending | to | and | interpreting | a | message Evaluation | - | Correct | answer | ✔The | process | of | judging | a | conversation Motivation | - | Correct | answer | ✔Desire | to | engage | with | an | interactant Assumption | 3 | of | CAT | - | Correct | answer | ✔Language | and | behaviors | impart | information | about | social | status | and | group | belonging | -Primary | language | reflects | the | person | with | the | higher | status | -New | group | members | are | willing | to | accommodate Assumption | 4 | of | CAT | - | Correct | answer | ✔Accommodation | varies | in | its | degree | of | appropriateness, | and | norms | guide | the | accommodation | process
-Accommodation | is | not | necessarily | beneficial Norms: | - | Correct | answer | ✔Younger | accommodates | older; | higher | status | accommodates | lower | status 3 | Ways | to | adapt | communication | - | Correct | answer | ✔1. | Convergence |
- | Divergence |
- | Over-accommodation Convergence | - | Correct | answer | ✔- | strategy | used | to | adapt | to | anothers | behavior -Selective | process | based | on | attraction -Typically | considered | to | be | a | positive | strategy | -May | be | misused | as | a | result | of | stereotypes Divergence | - | Correct | answer | ✔-strategy | used | to | accentuate | the | verbal | and | nonverbal | differences | between | communication | -May | be | used | to | disassociate | themselves | -Different | from | inattentiveness Reasons | for | divergence | (4) | - | Correct | answer | ✔1. | To | maintain | social | and | cultural | identity |
- | To | render | another | less | powerful
- | To | contrast | self-images |
- | Similarity | of | language | to | outgroup
- | Exposure | to | out | group | culture |
- | View | of | ethnolinguistic | vitality Ethnolinguistic | Vitality | - | Correct | answer | ✔The | range | and | importance | of | the | functions | served | by | (our | culture's) | language | - | perceived | usefulness | of | our | language. | -Influences | the | degree | to | which | in-group | members | will | act | as | a | group | when | interacting | with | members | of | out-groups Code | Switching | - | Correct | answer | ✔The | art | of | converging | or | diverging | verbal | and | nonverbal | communication | toward | another | individual, | group, | or | culture. Why | Code | Switch? | - | Correct | answer | ✔- | Desire | to | be | like | outgroup
- | To | gain | knowledge | of | "out | group"
- | To | increase | cohesiveness | with | out | group -To | accommodate | other | speakers | (courtesy) -Survival | -To | avoid | accommodating | other | speakers | (divergence) -privacy | (divergence) -To | express | another | perspective | of | one's | identity | -Respect | -Pride | in | original | culture
What | to | consider | when | code | switching | - | Correct | answer | ✔-It | can | be | perceived | as | rude | (Oprah | example) -Interpretation | of | the | new | language/style | may | be | different | than | native | speakers; | inaccuracy | and | miscommunication | can | occur/ CAT | tradition | - | Correct | answer | ✔Socio-psychological CAT | context | - | Correct | answer | ✔Cultural CAT | approach | - | Correct | answer | ✔Objective Strengths | of | CAT | - | Correct | answer | ✔Heuristic Weaknesses | of | CAT | - | Correct | answer | ✔- | Logical | Consistency | -Scope | (broad) Muted | Group | Theory | - | Correct | answer | ✔:) Example | in | textbook | - | Correct | answer | ✔ 40 | year | old | goes | back | to | college | and | is | having | a | hard | time | speaking | up. | She's | always | had | that | problem Muted | Group | Theory | is | an | ___________ | theory | - | Correct | answer | ✔Interpretive
-As | women | cease | to | be | muted, | men | will | no | longer | maintain | their | position | of | dominance | in | society Muted | Groups | - | Correct | answer | ✔-Black | holes | in | someone | else's | universe. | They | are | black | holes | because | they | are | overlooked, | muffled, | and | rendered | invisible
- | first | proposed | by | Edwin | and | Shirley | Ardener | who | argued | that | women | are | a | muted | group. Mutedness | is | caused | by | - | Correct | answer | ✔Lack | of | power | that | besets | any | group | of | low | status Sex | - | Correct | answer | ✔Biological | category | divided | into | male | and | female Gender | - | Correct | answer | ✔Social | category | consisting | of | the | learned | behaviors | that | constitute | masculinity | and | femininity | for | a | given | culture Assumption | 1 | of | MGT | - | Correct | answer | ✔-Women | perceive | the | world | differently | than | men | because | of | womens | and | mens | different | experiences | and | activities | rooted | in | the | division | of | labor | -The | world | is | a | different | place | for | men | and | women.. | their | experiences | differ. ex. | women | are | responsible | for | working | at | home, | they | perceive | the | world | diff | because | of | that
Assumption | 2 | of | MGT | - | Correct | answer | ✔Dominance | of | men's | systems | of | perception
- | Men | dominate | politics | -Men's | systems | of | perception | are | dominant | -Women's | experiences | are | unnamed | or | difficult | to | express Assumption | 3 | of | MGT | - | Correct | answer | ✔Womens | translation | processes | -To | participate | in | society, | women | transform | their | models | to | the | male | system | of | expression | -Storytelling |
- | "sexual | harassment" | and | "date | rape" Process | of | silencing | (4) | - | Correct | answer | ✔1. | Ridicule |
- | Ritual |
- | Control
- | Harassment Strategies | of | resistance | - | Correct | answer | ✔-Strategies | change | the | status | quo -Name | the | strategies | of | silencing | -Reclaim, | elevate, | and | celebrate | "trivial" | discourse. -Create | a | more | representative | language Kramarae | Extends | Ardeners | Work | - | Correct | answer | ✔- | Explores | why | women | are | muted | and | how | to | free | them
Kramarae | believes | that | because | technology | is | interactive, | cyberspace | has | the | potential | to | be | a | humane | space | for | women Women's | truth | into | men's | talk: | - | Correct | answer | ✔Kramarae | believes | that | in | order | to | participate | in | society, | women | must | transform | their | own | models | in | terms | of | the | received | male | system | of | expression. |
- | Does | it | work | when | women | talk | like | men? | (locker | room | talk) -This | translation | process | requires | constant | effort | and | leaves | women | wondering | if | they | said | it | right. Speaking | out | in | private: | networking | with | women | - | Correct | answer | ✔Kramarae | believes | that | females | are | likely | to | find | ways | to | express | themselves | outside | the | dominant | public | modes | of | expression | used | by | males Dale | Spender | - | Correct | answer | ✔hypothesizes | that | men | realize | that | listening | to | women | would | involve | a | renunciation | of | their | privileged | position. The | ultimate | goal | of | muted | group | theory | - | Correct | answer | ✔to | change | the | man-made | linguistic | system | that | oppresses | women. Sexual | harassment: | - | Correct | answer | ✔The | popularization | of | the | term | sexual | harassment | represents | a | great | victory | for | feminist | communication |
scholarship—encoding | women's | experience | into | the | received | language | of | society. Unwanted | sexual | attention | until | recently, | went | unnamed | (although | it | is | very | real) The | battle | over | sexual | harassment | is | as | much | a | struggle | over | language | as | it | is | over | sexual | conduct... Sexual | harassment | according | to | Symbolic | Interaction | Theory | (Mead): | - | Correct | answer | ✔the | extent | of | knowing | is | the | extent | of | naming. Sexual | harassment | according | to | Sapir-Whorf | Hypothesis: | - | Correct | answer | ✔Language | shapes | our | perception | of | reality. | Women | do | not | have | public | recognizable | vocabulary | leads | to | self | doubt | legitimacy | and | validity | of | validity Kramarae's | central | contention: | - | Correct | answer | ✔Questions | of | power | are | central | to | all | human | relationships Strategies | for | change: | - | Correct | answer | ✔-Name | the | strategies | of | silencing -Reclaim, | elevate, | and | celebrate | "trivial" | discourse | (e.g., | oral | histories, | diaries, | journals) -Create | a | more | representative | language | to | capture | women's | uniquely | gendered | experiences
Historical | Foundations | (3) | - | Correct | answer | ✔1. | Marxist | Theory |
- | Class | and | Capitalism | -Positon | of | the | worker | shapes | their | knowledge |
- | Georg | Wilhelm | Hegel |
- | Slaves | and | masters | have | differing | standpoints | although | they | live | in | same | society |
- | Nancy | Hartsock | -Focus | on | women | particular | social | position | and | a | desire | to | end | any | suppression | based | on | sex | or | gender. Feminist | Standpoint | Theory | = | One | of | the | many.... | - | Correct | answer | ✔Standpoint | theories | that | focus | on | marginalized | groups. 4 | FST | General | Beliefs | - | Correct | answer | ✔1. | Sex/Gender | is | a | central | focus | of | FST
- | Sex/Gender | relations | are | problematic | because | of | inequalities | and | contradictions |
- | Sex/Gender | relations | are | changeable |
- | FST | can | be | used | to | challenge | the | status | quo | when | it | devalues | women Standpoint | - | Correct | answer | ✔Is | an | achieved | position | based | on | a | social | location | that | lends | an | interpretive | aspect | to | a | persons | life | -Being | a | woman | doesn't | confer | a | feminist | standpoint | -Standpoints | resist | and | oppose | the | dominant | worldview | -Standpoint | and | perspective | differ |
-Standpoints | are | partial | -"outsider | within" Assumption | 1 | about | Social | Life | - | Correct | answer | ✔class | position | structures | and | limits | understandings | of | social | relations Assumption | 2 | about | Social | Life | - | Correct | answer | ✔When | material | life | is | structured | in | opposing | ways | for | different | groups, | the | understanding | of | each | will | be | an | inversion | of | the | other Assumption | 3 | about | Social | Life | - | Correct | answer | ✔The | vision | of | the | ruling | group | structures | the | material | relations | in | which | all | groups | are | forced | to | participate Assumption | 4 | about | Social | Life | - | Correct | answer | ✔The | vision | available | to | an | oppressed | group | represents | struggle | and | an | achievement Assumption | 5 | about | Social | Life | - | Correct | answer | ✔The | understanding | of | the | oppressed | makes | visible | the | inhumanity | of | existing | relations | among | groups | and | creates | a | move | toward | a | better | and | more | just | world Assumption | 1 | about | Knowledge | - | Correct | answer | ✔No | knowledge | an | be | truly | objective Assumption | 2 | about | Knowledge | - | Correct | answer | ✔Women's | experiences | and | perspectives | differ | from | mens, | producing | different | communication | styles
-Feminist | standpoint | enables | women | to | identify | domestic | activities | as | "work" | with | "value" FST | Main | bits | - | Correct | answer | ✔-People | occupy | specific | places | in | the | social | hierarchy -Individuals | view | social | situations | from | specific | vantage | points Vantage | points | that | oppose | those | in | power | become | standpoints All | standpoints | are | partial -Systems | of | power | shape | communication -Basis | of | framework | is | knowledge | from | the | everyday | lives | of | people -Criticizes | the | status | quo Example | in | class | of | FST | - | Correct | answer | ✔TED | TALK "the | black | woman | stole | MY | job" FST | weaknesss | - | Correct | answer | ✔utility
