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Language (Powerful vs. Polite (Middle ground is best way to convey your…
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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.
Linguistic Relativism: A Moderate form of linguistic determinism that argues that language exerts a strong influence on the perceptions of the people who speak it.
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Divergence: A linguistic strategy in which speakers emphasize differences between their communicative style and others' in order to create distance.
Emotive Language: Language that conveys the sender's attitude rather then simply offering an objective description.
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Jargon: The specialized vocabulary that is used as a kind of shorthand by people with common background knowledge and experience.
Convergence: Accommodating one's speaking style to another person, who usually is desirable or has higher status.
Sex Role: The social orientation that governs behavior, in contrast to a person's biological gender.
Slang: Language used by a group of people whose members belong to a similar coculture or other group.
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There was a lot to process in this chapter. For the most part, it broke down some key elements that often go overlooked in public speaking. Some of them being social norms, which can become very obscure and hard to cover. But here's so many useful tools to think over here it will be easy to transfer some cheat codes from chapter 5 into a powerful, successful speech of my own.
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