The Nature of Language Troublesome Language Gender and Language The Power of Language Random Language
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Dialect
What is a version of the same language that includes substantially different words and meanings?
100
Jargon
Acronyms are an example of...
100
False
True of False: Women talk more than men.
100
I finished it
Which sounds more responsible; "It's done" or "I finished it."
100
Africa
(over 1,000 languages)
What is the most diverse continent with languages?
200
Sign Language
Spoken and written words are types of linguistic symbols. Another form of this is...
200
Emotive Language
A man is forceful and a woman is pushy is an example of...
200
Men
What gender is more likely to joke around
200
True
True or False. Names have power.
200
Mandarin
What is the most spoken language in the world?
300
Connotative meanings
Implied interpretations for words that reflect people, culture, etc.
300
Equivocal words
Words that have more than one dictionary definition are...
300
Through actions
How do men typically express their emotions?
300
Standard English
A language that most scholars define as a lower status of talking.
300
Somalia
This African country is the only one in which the entire population speaks the same language.
400
Syntactic
When a word is required to have at least one vowel in the English language, it is said to be following the _____ rules.
400
Long
What is relative word for short?
400
Smooth conversation
Women are more likely to think a date was successful if there was...
400
Outgoing
If powerless language is considered more on the quiet side, then powerful language is referred to as more loud and _____.
400
I
What is the shortest and oldest word in the English language?
500
Semantic
When it is agreed that cars are for driving, the language rule that follows this is...
500
Euphemisms
In Greek, this word is defined as "To use words of good omen".
500
Society expects them to.
Why do men and women communicate differently?
500
Linguistic intergroup bias.
The tendency to label people and behaviors in terms that reflect their in-group or out-group status is...
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Purple and Orange
What two words have no words that rhyme with themselves. Hint; they're colors.






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