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Dialect
What is a version of the same language that includes substantially different words and meanings?
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Jargon
Acronyms are an example of...
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False
True of False: Women talk more than men.
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I finished it
Which sounds more responsible; "It's done" or "I finished it."
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Africa
(over 1,000 languages)
What is the most diverse continent with languages?
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Sign Language
Spoken and written words are types of linguistic symbols. Another form of this is...
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Emotive Language
A man is forceful and a woman is pushy is an example of...
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Men
What gender is more likely to joke around
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True
True or False. Names have power.
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Mandarin
What is the most spoken language in the world?
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Connotative meanings
Implied interpretations for words that reflect people, culture, etc.
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Equivocal words
Words that have more than one dictionary definition are...
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Through actions
How do men typically express their emotions?
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Standard English
A language that most scholars define as a lower status of talking.
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Somalia
This African country is the only one in which the entire population speaks the same language.
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Syntactic
When a word is required to have at least one vowel in the English language, it is said to be following the _____ rules.
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Long
What is relative word for short?
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Smooth conversation
Women are more likely to think a date was successful if there was...
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Outgoing
If powerless language is considered more on the quiet side, then powerful language is referred to as more loud and _____.
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I
What is the shortest and oldest word in the English language?
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Semantic
When it is agreed that cars are for driving, the language rule that follows this is...
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Euphemisms
In Greek, this word is defined as "To use words of good omen".
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Society expects them to.
Why do men and women communicate differently?
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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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