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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?

  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6

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