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Language (Attraction and interest (Demonstrative pronoun choice (These…
Language
Attraction and interest
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When people are reluctant to speak candidly, the language they use can suggest their degree of interest and attraction toward a person, object, or idea.
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sequential placement
Isn't always significant. you may put " toilet bowl cleaner" at the top of your shopping list simply because it's closer to market door than is champagne.
The nature of language
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meaning are in people, not words
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Overly abstract language
most object, events, and ideas can be described with braying degrees of specificity.
Lower items focus ladder specifically on the person, object or event.
Higher-level abstractions are a useful tool because without them language would be too cumbersome to be useful.
Sexism and Racism
by now it should be clear that the power of language to shape attitudes goes beyond individual cases and influences how we perceive entire groups of people.
For example, casa miller and Kate swift argue that incorrect use of the pronoun he to refer to both men and women can have damaging results.
the power of racist language to shape attitudes is difficult to avoid, even when it is obviously offensive.
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Meaning are in people, not words
Ask a dozen people what the same symbol means, and you are likely to get 12 different answer.
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Status
In the classic 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.
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Responsibility
In addition to suggesting liking and importance, language can reveal the speaker's willing to accept responsibility for a massage
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Slang and jargon
Slang is language used by a group of people whose members belong to a similar co-culture or other group.
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Emotive Language
contains words that sound as if they're describing something when they are really announcing the speaker's attitude toward something.
Evasive language
None of the troublesome language habits we have described so far is a deliberate strategy to mislead or antagonize others.
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we will consider euphemisms and equivocation, two type of language.
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The first research on the on the influence of gender on conversational topics was conducted more than 70 year ago.
Despite the changes in male female roles since then, some gender-linked patterns remain remarkably similar.
For instance
Both men and women are more striking than the similarities,
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Female friends spend more time discussing relational issues such as family, friends and emotions.
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Nongender Variables
Despite the difference in the ways men and women speak, the link between gender and language use isn't as clear-cut as it might seem.
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One analysis of more than 1200 research studies found that only 1 percent of variance in communication behavior resulted from sex difference.
It is very interested chapter because it teach us how it is important to use the powerful language otherwise it can affect other people feeling or to us.
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