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6. The situational theory of communicative conflict states that:
- Equivocation occurs in order to prevent 'threats to face'
- Equivocation occurs in response to communicative conflict
- Equivocation occurs only in political interviews
- None of the above
7. Which of the following is NOT a response to a CC as found by Bavelas?
- Refusal to answer
- Hinting
- Subtle changes in response
- Deffered replies
8. Giles and Smith (1979) found speaker evaluations were most favourable when they:
- Converged on speech rate and content but never pronunciation
- Did not converge on any of the dimensions
- Converged on speech rate and either content or pronunciation
- Converged on speech rated, content and pronunciation
9. Duncan-Fiske proposed how many turn yielding cues?
10. Context as a dimension of equivocation refers to:
- The extent to which the response directly answers the question
- The clarity of what is being said
- To what extent the speaker is giving their own opinion
- To what extent the speaker is addressing the other person in the situation
11. Which of the following was not a dimension of interruption as hypothesises by Roger, Bull and Smith (1988)?
- None of the above
- Enthusiastic vs unenthusiastic
- Single vs complex
- Succesful vs unsuccessful
12. Communication accommodation theory is based on which theory:
- None of the above
- Speech accommodation theory
- Similarity-attraction theory
- Innate emotion theory
13. Smith and Workman (2008)'s accent study found:
- Birmingham accent was rated as the least favourable
- RP was rated as least favourable
- Birmingham accent was rated as most intelligent
- Yorkshire accent was rated as least intelligent
14. Which of the following does NOT describe equivocation?
- Straight forward communication
- Intentional use of imprecise language
- Contradictory
- Evasive or obscure
15. Walker (1982) suggested transition pauses are?
- More than 300ms
- Less than 200ms
- More than 200ms
- Less than 400ms
16. Fuertes et al (2012) found which 3 dimensions when comparing standard/non-standard accents
- Favourability, status, intelligence
- Status, solidarity, dynamism
- Favourability, solidarity, dynamism
- Status, intelligence, dynamism
17. Ruiter, Mitterer and Enfield found which to be the most important cues in projecting speakers end of turn?
- Speech only
- Speech and syntax
- Syntax and elongation of final syllable
- Syntax and hand gestures
18. Willemyns (1997) found:
- Participants accents became less broad with a broad interviewer
- Participants accents became more broad with a broad interviewer
- Participants accents did not change with a broad interviewer
- Participants accents became more broad with a less-broad interviewer
19. After listening to an English person critiquing Welsh studies, Bourmis and Giles (1977) found:
- Accents were unchanging
- None of the above
- Participants enhanced their Welsh dialect
- Participants accents became more similar to that of the English person