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Assumes that "strong objectivity " refers to the strategy of beginning women's lives and experiences(What Fisher would call narrative) while holding to the thought that truth is relative according to the perspective of the women

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Standpoint theory by Harding and Wood

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True

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Harding and Would assert women as a group are marginalized T/F

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Both __ and ___ - Truths are given from perspectives - What a person knows is determined by who they are as a knower

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Harding argues with truth as objective and value-free with the idea that

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All the above... - Lived experience as a criterion of meaning - The use of dialogue in assessing knowledge claims - The ethic of caring - The ethic of personal accountability

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Harding and Wood assert African American women largely validate knowledge by:

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unmask the power imbalances in society

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Hall maintains that he wants to:

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people use the frameworks provided by the dominant discourse of the day to interpret signs, symbols, and media messages.

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Michel Foucault believes that

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prevents many stories from being told

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Hall's main concern with the corporate control of mass communication is that it

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Formulate a liberating code

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Which of the following is not one of Hall's decoding options?

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A method employed by the ruling class to exercise total control over people

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Hegemony is

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Hegemony

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Preponderant influence or domination, especially of one nation over another, is

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it's strong ideological component limits its credibility

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Hall's brand of cultural studies has been criticized because

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Sequence and meaning

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Narration includes symbolic actions that have these significant aspects:

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Storytellers

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Fischer assumes people are primarily

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Fidelity

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Having a story ring true and humane is

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Coherence

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Having a story "hang together" is

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True

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Narratives are not deductively or inductively rational but "emotionally" rational (T/F)

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Values embedded in the message

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The logic of good reasons centers on

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Symbolic actions that have sequence and meaning

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Fischer defines narratives as

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Act Scene Purpose Agent Agency

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What are the elements of the dramatic period

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Consubstantiality/identificatiom

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The term Burke used to describe the relationship of the communicator with the audience:

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Victimage

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The prices of designating or claiming an external enemy as the source of our ills is called:

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To purge ourselves from guilt

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According to Burke, the ultimate purpose of all public speaking is:

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False

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The elaboration likelihood model provides a scientific way to definitely persuade an audience (T/F)

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True

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For the ELM, persuasive change based on objective thinking is more persistent and predictive of behavior than change based on bias or authority (T/F)

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Elaboration

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Noise Disrupts

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cognitive decision that the persuader has a sound regiment

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The ELM holds that the major key to strong, positive attitude change is

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__ , __ , and __ - Offend the sensibilities of the audience - End in a rejected message - Result in the audience moving farther from the communicator's desired direction of change.

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ELM predicts that weak arguments often

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Peripheral route

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Reciprocation, social proof, liking and scarcity are persuasive strategies of the

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Central route

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Consistency, authority, and ethos are persuasive strategies of the:

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he wanted to move from description to explanation and prediction

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Philipsen changed the name his theory from "ethnography of communication" to "speech codes theory" because

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a set of messages, expressed through a specific vocabulary, guided by rules and premises that explain and predict communicative conduct in a given sociological context

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In philipsen's speech code theory, a speech code is

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a blunt form of straight talk assuming others want what is best communally

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Tamar Katriel studies a Hebrew rhetorical method commonly called dugri, which is

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psychology, sociology, and rhetoric

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According to Philipsen, a speech code involves a culturally distinctive

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persuade others in a manner that controls and predicts, in general, what others will say and do.

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Philipsen suggest that by a rhetorically sensitive use of shared speech codes, participants in a culture can

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is silent - even naive - about power relationships

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Speech codes theory has been criticized because Philipsen

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ALL CULTURES HAVE IT!

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List two culture where there is not a distinctive speech code

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Clarity

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A criticism of communication privacy management theory is that it lacks

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Mistake

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A slip of the tongue that reveals private information is boundary turbulence called a

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Boundary linkage

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Which concept refers to the strength of a relationship

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reluctant confidant

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A person who is co-ower of private information who did not seek it or want it is a

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confidentiality dilemma

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If a friend shares something that you know is incorrect you face a

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Thick

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When the information barriers are impervious to penetration. Peronio refers to them as

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Permeability

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The extent to which a boundary permits private information to flow to third parties is called

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Human connection

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Tannen believes that, more than anything else, women seek

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control and power through status

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Tannen believes that, more than anything else, men seek

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as a weapon

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Tannen maintains that men use talk

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establish a connection with another person

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women typically ask questions to

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understand each other's styles and the motives behind them.

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According to Tannen, the first step in overcoming destructive responses and miscommunication between men and women is to

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situations in which a theory is reaffirmed by one's personal experience

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The "aha factor" refers to

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- Although Tannen claims both female and male styles are equally valid, many of her comments and examples tend to put down masculine values - the prevailing ideology of intimacy discount the ways that men draw close to eachother

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Julia Wood and Christopher Inham observe two of the following

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- It is too hard on men - It is not hard enough on men - It runs the risk of becoming self-fulfilling prophecy

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Tannen's work on genderlect styles has been criticized because:

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A set of systematic hunches about the way things operate

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What is a theory

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objectivity and emancipation

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According to Griffin, the two highest values in doing communication theory are often:

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Surveys

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What would be the best approach to answer the following question? - To what extent does media news coverage set the agenda for what people think about and believe

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Ethnography

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What would be the best approach to answer the following question? - How does the standpoint of women affect the value they place on caregiving?

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Textual Analysis

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What would be the best approach to answer the following question? - What does the speaker's choice of language reveal about her strategic intent?

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