Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
communication - CORRECT ANSWER - A process through which you send messages to
and receive messages from others through gestures and expressions without words
actions, language - CORRECT ANSWER - what are two methods of communicating?
true - CORRECT ANSWER - true/false: effective communicators are good are using
BOTH language and actions to express themselves
language - CORRECT ANSWER - A code whereby ideas about the world are represented
through a conventional system of arbitrary signals for communication
coded symbols - CORRECT ANSWER - refer to real things, concepts, or ideas
referents - CORRECT ANSWER - what the symbols represent
symbols - CORRECT ANSWER - -Arbitrary, evolved over time
-They can be letters, words, etc
-Whatever it is represents something
speech - CORRECT ANSWER - oral expression of language
respiration, phonation, resonation, articulation - CORRECT ANSWER - speech requires
what 4 things to be working properly?
respiration - CORRECT ANSWER - airflow
, phonation - CORRECT ANSWER - vocal sounds
resonation - CORRECT ANSWER - speech modification
articulation - CORRECT ANSWER - speech sound placement
false - CORRECT ANSWER - true/false: speech and language are the same
paralinguistics - CORRECT ANSWER - -the melodic components of speech
-stress and intonation give meaning
nonlinguistics - CORRECT ANSWER - -nonverbal communication, "silent language"
-cues we use to enhance meaning
metalinguistics - CORRECT ANSWER - -knowledge of language
phonology - CORRECT ANSWER - sound system of a language
phoneme - CORRECT ANSWER - smallest unit of sound
syntax - CORRECT ANSWER - the rules for combining words into grammatically
sensible sentences in a given language
Morphology - CORRECT ANSWER - units of meaning involved in word formation
morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER - in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning