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Language (Troublesome Language (Overly Abstract language (abstraction…

- - - - Equivocal words have more than one correct dictonary definition.Some equivocal misunderstandings are simple,at least after they are exposed.
  - - - This label consists of anumber of descripyionsof the same thing. Low items focus specifically on the person, object, or event, whereas higher items are generalizatins that include the subject as a member of the alarger class.
    - - speech that refers to events or objects only vaguely serves a second, less obvious function. At times it allows us to avoid confrontations by deliberately being unclear. For example, your boss is enthusiastic about a new approach to doing business that you think is a terrible idea.
    - - Factual statements are claims that can be verifired as true or flase.B y contrast,opnion statements are based on the speaker's beliefe.
    - - Labeling your opinions can go a long way toward relational harmony, but developing this habit won't solve all linguistic problems. Difficulties also arise when we consider factual statements with inferential statements-conclusions arrived at form an interpretation of evidence.
    - - Emotive language contains words that sound as if they're describing something when they are really announcing the speaker's attitude toward something
  - - - A euphemism is a pleasant term substututed for a more direct but potentially less pleasant one.like we are using euphemisms when we say"restroom"instead of"toliet"or "full-figured"instead of"overweight".
    - - Your response in this situation was an equivocation-a deliberately vague statement that can be interpreted in more than one way.
- - - - In the classical musical My Fair lady, professor Henry Higgins transformed Eliza Doolittle from a lowly flower girl into a high-society woman by replacing her cockney accent with an upper-crust speaking style. Decades of research have demonstrated that the power of speech to influence status is the fact.
    - - Names are one way to shape and reinforce a people personal idenitiy
    - - The power of language to shape attitudes goes beyond indivitual cases and influnces how we perceive entire groups of people.For example,casey Miller and Kate Swift argue that incorrect use of the promnoun "he" to refer to both men and women can have damaging results