Exam 5: Language

A) sleep together
B) kick the bucket
C) jumbo shrimp
D) collateral damage

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A) When you add it all up, smoking costs a person almost $7,000 a year.
B) Smoking is the number one cause of emphysema.
C) Most employers can legally discriminate against smokers.
D) Think about how many lives you're ruining by continuing to smoke.

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A) shared opinion error
B) monopolization error
C) shared knowledge error
D) shared perspective error

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A) "Candidate L is the best choice for our future."
B) "Candidate C accepted illegal bribes."
C) "Candidate C has impeccable morals."
D) "Electing Candidate L would be a mistake."

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A) If a culture does not have a word for an emotion, its members will not be able to experience that emotion.
B) Regardless of the language that individuals from different cultures might speak, people see the world in basically the same way.
C) The culture that you are raised in determines the languages you will speak in your lifetime.
D) The distinction between nouns and verbs does not exist in most languages.

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A) Slang is closely related to jargon.
B) Slang can help people identify individuals that belong to their social network.
C) Slang is neither inherently good nor inherently bad.
D) Slang is an exception to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

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A) good-natured
B) water
C) mumquall
D) splash

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A) Slander concerns statements made either aloud or in print.
B) Whether or not a statement is true is only relevant to slander, not libel.
C) Libel is more common than slander in interpersonal interaction.
D) Libel involves only statements made in print.

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A) phonological rule
B) syntactic rule
C) semantic rule
D) pragmatic rule

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A) Name-keepers have higher self-esteem than name-changers.
B) Name-changers report having more power in their marriages than name-keepers.
C) Name-changers score higher than name-keepers on reports of feminist attitudes.
D) Name-keepers say their personal concerns are more important than their relationships.

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A) Politicians limiting their use of the word "poor" when describing citizens of lower economic status.
B) Homosexual men referring to one another as "queer."
C) A white speaker using only the term "African American" when referring to black audience members.
D) The NAACP holding a ceremonial funeral for the "n-word."

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A) appeal to logos
B) appeal to ethos
C) appeal to pathos
D) none of the above

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A) Language is often confusing because of multiple connotations.
B) Language can be unclear because of multiple meanings for the same word.
C) Languages around the world do not have a clear definition of referents for words.
D) Language symbols are arbitrary and hard to define.

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