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In attempting to motivate someone, a speaker should consider beliefs and attitudes alike, since arguments almost always involve both of these things.

A) True
B) False

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"I think that good food is the best thing in the world." "Well, I think that it is more important to eat organic produce than anything else." This exchange is:


A) an obviously genuine dispute
B) an apparently verbal but genuine dispute
C) a merely verbal dispute
D) not a dispute at all

E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

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C

When your father says to you, "I am really sick of coming home to such a mess!" the best description of his sentence is:


A) an exclamatory sentence used expressively
B) an exclamatory sentence used directively
C) a declarative sentence used directively
D) an imperative sentence used directively

E) C) and D)
F) All of the above

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B

Matching: -We use ________ when we want to disguise or underplay the emotive meaning of words.


A) emotively neutral language
B) emotionally charged language
C) directive discourse

D) A) and C)
E) A) and B)

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"The word home means 'that place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.'" This definition is best described as a:


A) stipulative definition
B) precising definition
C) theoretical definition
D) lexical definitio

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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Matching: -Definitions should not be ________, because then the definition will only explain the term to those who already understand it


A) circular
B) ambiguous
C) rude

D) A) and B)
E) All of the above

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Love letters are, generally, good examples of the performative function of language.

A) True
B) False

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Matching: -"Man is the only rational animal." In this definition by genus and difference, "rational" refers to ________.


A) species
B) genus
C) difference

D) All of the above
E) B) and C)

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A child points at her family dog and says "doggie" to her mother.This is an:


A) intensional definition
B) extensional definition
C) ostensive definition
D) operational definition

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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If you are told that pig means "swine," what kind of definition have you been given?


A) a false one
B) a definition by genus and species
C) a synonymous definition
D) a precising definition

E) C) and D)
F) None of the above

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Matching: -Pollsters influence the responses they receive unless they avoid ________ language.


A) emotive
B) offensive
C) stipulativ

D) A) and B)
E) All of the above

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A

Which type of definition is found in the dictionary?


A) stipulative
B) precising
C) theoretical
D) lexical

E) All of the above
F) None of the above

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Extension refers to the collection of objects to which a term applies.

A) True
B) False

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Directive discourse in language is used to express emotion.

A) True
B) False

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Ostensive definitions avoid some of the limitations of extensional definitions.

A) True
B) False

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A teacher says that amphibian means "frogs, newts, and salamanders." Is she giving the students a definition?


A) no (a list of objects is not a definition)
B) no (the teacher is referring to some objects but a real definition must refer to the intension of the term)
C) yes (this is an intensional definition)
D) yes (this is a definition by example)

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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Matching: -When a pastor says to a couple, "I now pronounce you man and wife," he/she is using ________ language.


A) exclamatory
B) performative
C) imperative

D) None of the above
E) All of the above

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What is the relationship between the definiendum and the definiens?


A) the definiendum is that which defines the definiens
B) the definiens is that which explains the meaning of the definiendum
C) the definiendum applies to stipulative definitions the definiens does not
D) a definiendum is a definition that eliminates ambiguity; a definiens is a defini- tion that eliminates vagueness

E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

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Which is most likely an expressive use of language?


A) a lie to your spouse
B) a note in a birthday card
C) AN evaluation of your English paper
D) an order in a restaurant

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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"Hey, Jim! You about done there? " When Jim's carpool partner says this to him, it is an example of:


A) an interrogative sentence used in ceremonial discourse
B) an interrogative sentence used in directive discourse
C) an exclamatory sentence used in directive discourse
D) an exclamatory sentence used in performative discourse

E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

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