Explain how speakers must adapt their language style to diverse listeners
What will be an ideal response?
- Use language that your audience can understand; avoid using ethic vernacular, regionalisms, or jargon.
- Use respectful language; refrain from using language that defames any subgroup—people of particular ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds or sexual orientations; women; or people with disabilities.
- Use unbiased language; avoid language that stereotypes or discriminates or that is sexist.
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