Chapter 9

Question 1

Act sequence (speAking) refers to the actual form and content of what is said: the precise words used, how they are used

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True

Question 2

Understanding of everyday life which allows people to operate in and understand the world around them

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Commonsense knowledge

Question 3

How people organize and understand the social world around them, focusing on the phenomena of everyday activities...

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...describe an Ethnomethodology approach

Question 4

Studies which use descriptive research methods rather than quantitative ones are called:

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Qualitative studies

Question 5

Choice of channel - oral, written, signed/telegraphic - and the actual forms of speech employed - language, dialect,...

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...captures the Instrumentalities (in speakIng)

Question 6

Research which provides in-depth description of everyday life, beliefs, and cultural practices of a group of people

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Ethnographic research

Question 7

Setting (Speaking) refers to the time and place, that is the concrete physical circumstances in which speech takes place

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True

Question 8

S P E A K I N G refers to objectives of a particular communicative event

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True

Question 9

Participant observation involves first-hand observations of behavior in a group of people in their natural setting

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True

Question 10

The process of acquiring communicative competence is called:

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Language socialization

Question 11

Backchanneling includes minimal responses - mhm or uhuh, phrases - oh, okay/I see, and non-verbal cues- nodding, gaze

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True

Question 12

Specific behaviors normatively associated with a particular communicative event; adherence to/deviation from them...

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...captures the Norms of Interaction and Interpretation (in speakiNg)

Question 13

Reflexivity: while interactions are shaped by the context, they are not simultaneously creating the social context

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False

Question 14

Indexicality is the association of a code or linguistic form with a particular social meaning

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True

Question 15

People make use of their commonsense knowledge and to how they employ that knowledge in their conduct of everyday life

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Practical reasoning

Question 16

Scene (Speaking) refers to the cultural definition of the occasion

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True

Question 17

Conventionally recognized & expected outcomes of an exchange; personal goals that participants seek to accomplish...

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...on particular occasions are called Ends (spEaking)

Question 18

Participants (sPeaking) refer to the people who are part of the communicative event being studied

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True

Question 19

Ethnography of communication is a type of ethnographic approach to the study of language in society

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True

Question 20

Genre (speakinG) refers to clearly demarcated types of utterances - poems, proverbs, riddles, sermons, prayers, lectures

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True

Question 21

Tone, manner, or spirit in which a particular message is conveyed, such as light-hearted, serious, precise, pedantic...,

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...captures the Key (in speaKing)

Question 22

Membership categorization devices: aspects of language which allow us to assign people/things into specific social categ

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True

Questions 22