What is a speech community?

What will be an ideal response?


ANS: A speech community is a group of people who share norms about communication. This means that one exists when people share understandings about goals of communication, strategies for enacting those goals, and ways of interpreting communication.

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Functionalists argue that the family exists not as some ideal type, but as people who make decisions daily as they deal with one another

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Because of hypersexualization in the U.S. culture, males but not females are encouraged to lose their virginity at early ages

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which of these is NOT considered an essential part of the scientific method?

a. observation b. hypothesis testing c. analysis of data d. publishing results in a research journal e. drawing conclusions

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_____ holds that our interactions are determined by the rewards or punishments that we receive from others.

A. Functionalism B. Symbolic interactionism C. Social exchange theory D. Conflict theory

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