The role of silence in language

a. reveals the emotions of the communicator, cross-culturally.
b. is useless as a form of communication.
c. is unavoidable, thus, most conversations are nonverbal cross-culturally.
d. varies culture to culture.
e. differs widely across the United States.


ANS: D

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