Comm 220 Exam 2 Communication Theory WWU
questions with accurate answers
Abstract Ans✓✓✓ Words are not the things themselves
Words are not concrete
Toboggan means warm fuzzy hat but also sled.
Academic Integrity Ans✓✓✓ The practice of citing your sources
Being truthful
Advocating for public good
Have complex knowledge of topic
Cite source material
Recognize the support citations provide
Agency Ans✓✓✓ The capacity to act (central in democratic society)
Ambigious Ans✓✓✓ Represent a variety of meanings
Interpreting something in many different ways
You could surf the web but also surf the waves
Arbitrary Ans✓✓✓ Assigned randomly
We often borrow words from other contexts to meet our new needs
Virus - once meant an illness, now refers to a problem with your
computer
, Artifact Ans✓✓✓ Nonverbal use of objects as communication;
jewelry, clothing, etc.
Autocratic society Ans✓✓✓ a closed society, where people lack
agency and have minimal control over what is said
rhetoric plays limited role here
Body epistemology Ans✓✓✓ Give attention to what our bodies tell us
Observe what others' bodies tell us
Body Identity Ans✓✓✓ Our bodies and identities are connected
We perform our bodies
Others' read our bodies
> The dangers of stigma
The notion that our bodies and identities are inetracably, intertwined
Chronemics Ans✓✓✓ How time functions
Citationality Ans✓✓✓ A reference to something that helps make
shortcuts in our meaning making.
Political Correctness can be used as a citation
questions with accurate answers
Abstract Ans✓✓✓ Words are not the things themselves
Words are not concrete
Toboggan means warm fuzzy hat but also sled.
Academic Integrity Ans✓✓✓ The practice of citing your sources
Being truthful
Advocating for public good
Have complex knowledge of topic
Cite source material
Recognize the support citations provide
Agency Ans✓✓✓ The capacity to act (central in democratic society)
Ambigious Ans✓✓✓ Represent a variety of meanings
Interpreting something in many different ways
You could surf the web but also surf the waves
Arbitrary Ans✓✓✓ Assigned randomly
We often borrow words from other contexts to meet our new needs
Virus - once meant an illness, now refers to a problem with your
computer
, Artifact Ans✓✓✓ Nonverbal use of objects as communication;
jewelry, clothing, etc.
Autocratic society Ans✓✓✓ a closed society, where people lack
agency and have minimal control over what is said
rhetoric plays limited role here
Body epistemology Ans✓✓✓ Give attention to what our bodies tell us
Observe what others' bodies tell us
Body Identity Ans✓✓✓ Our bodies and identities are connected
We perform our bodies
Others' read our bodies
> The dangers of stigma
The notion that our bodies and identities are inetracably, intertwined
Chronemics Ans✓✓✓ How time functions
Citationality Ans✓✓✓ A reference to something that helps make
shortcuts in our meaning making.
Political Correctness can be used as a citation
