SPC 1608 – Exam 3 – Complete Questions and Solutions –
2025/2026
Language - correct answer ✔✔ The rule-governed word system we use to verbally
communicate.
"The meaning of a word is not in the intent of the speaker, but in how it is understood by the
listener." - correct answer ✔✔ TRUE
Receiver-centric - correct answer ✔✔ A person's assumptions that the meaning he or she gives
a word or a phrase is its exclusive meaning.
Language and cultural diversity - correct answer ✔✔ Choose language that is not only
appropriate to your culture but also to the culture of your audience members.
Language and demographic diversity - correct answer ✔✔ A speaker must take care as to how
he refers to a specific racial or ethnic group in his speech as it could have a strong impact on the
individual members of that audience.
Language and individual diversity - correct answer ✔✔ Take into consideration your audiences
individual beliefs, attitudes and values.
Rules to using language effectively - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Choose language appropriate to the
rhetorical situation.
2. Use inclusive language.
3. Use credibility-enhancing language.
4. Use language to its fullest potential.
5. Use language that will help manage your speech and help the audience understand what you
want to communicate.
,The language in a speech should reflect the overall rhetorical situation we face, as well as the
context in which we find ourselves. - correct answer ✔✔ TRUE
Inclusive language - correct answer ✔✔ Language that helps people believe that they not only
have a stake in matters of societal importance but also have power in this regard.
Marginalizing language - correct answer ✔✔ Language that diminishes people's importance and
makes them appear to be less powerful, less significant, and less worthwhile than they are.
Totalizing language - correct answer ✔✔ Language that defines people exclusively on the basis
of a single attribute, such as race, ethnicity, biological sex, or disability.
Stereotyping - correct answer ✔✔ Occurs when people make generalizations about a whole
group of people and then apply those generalizations indiscriminately to anyone from that
group.
Sexist language - correct answer ✔✔ Language that stereotypes gender roles.
Immediate language - correct answer ✔✔ Language that reduces the psychological distance
that separates speakers and audience members and stresses that speech is a transaction.
Emphasizes the fact that a speaker and an audience are a collective rather than two separate
entities.
Credibility will not only depends on how well a speaker has done his research, but will also
depend on whether an audience perceives that a speaker is a competent source of information.
- correct answer ✔✔ TRUE
Powerless speech - correct answer ✔✔ Characterized by the use of language such as hedges,
qualifiers, hesitations, and tag questions.
, Powerful speech - correct answer ✔✔ Fluent and direct.
Credibility-enhancing language - correct answer ✔✔ Words that emphasize rather than
undermine audience perceptions of a speaker's confidence.
Verbal quialifiers - correct answer ✔✔ Words and phrases that erode the impact of what a
speakers says in a speech.
EX. "I'st just my honest opinion..."
"I'm pretty sure, but I could be wrong..."
Way in which we can use language to increase the audiences perception of our competence: -
correct answer ✔✔ 1. Grammar- some colloquial expressions are inappropriate for a speech.
2. Pronunciation- mispronouncing a word can make speaker seem incompetent or change the
meaning of a word.
3. Usage- Using a word incorrectly can be cause to questions a speakers credibility.
4. Truthfulness- Audience must believe that the speaker is trustworthy.
Styles of learning - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Auditory
2. Visual
3. Kinesthetic
Ways in which we can use language to its fullest potential: - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Include
visual, auditory and kinesthetic words in your speech.
2. Use words that "show and tell" your audience what it is you're speaking of. (metaphor, simile,
etc).
3. Use rhythmic speech.
4. Vary language intensity.
2025/2026
Language - correct answer ✔✔ The rule-governed word system we use to verbally
communicate.
"The meaning of a word is not in the intent of the speaker, but in how it is understood by the
listener." - correct answer ✔✔ TRUE
Receiver-centric - correct answer ✔✔ A person's assumptions that the meaning he or she gives
a word or a phrase is its exclusive meaning.
Language and cultural diversity - correct answer ✔✔ Choose language that is not only
appropriate to your culture but also to the culture of your audience members.
Language and demographic diversity - correct answer ✔✔ A speaker must take care as to how
he refers to a specific racial or ethnic group in his speech as it could have a strong impact on the
individual members of that audience.
Language and individual diversity - correct answer ✔✔ Take into consideration your audiences
individual beliefs, attitudes and values.
Rules to using language effectively - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Choose language appropriate to the
rhetorical situation.
2. Use inclusive language.
3. Use credibility-enhancing language.
4. Use language to its fullest potential.
5. Use language that will help manage your speech and help the audience understand what you
want to communicate.
,The language in a speech should reflect the overall rhetorical situation we face, as well as the
context in which we find ourselves. - correct answer ✔✔ TRUE
Inclusive language - correct answer ✔✔ Language that helps people believe that they not only
have a stake in matters of societal importance but also have power in this regard.
Marginalizing language - correct answer ✔✔ Language that diminishes people's importance and
makes them appear to be less powerful, less significant, and less worthwhile than they are.
Totalizing language - correct answer ✔✔ Language that defines people exclusively on the basis
of a single attribute, such as race, ethnicity, biological sex, or disability.
Stereotyping - correct answer ✔✔ Occurs when people make generalizations about a whole
group of people and then apply those generalizations indiscriminately to anyone from that
group.
Sexist language - correct answer ✔✔ Language that stereotypes gender roles.
Immediate language - correct answer ✔✔ Language that reduces the psychological distance
that separates speakers and audience members and stresses that speech is a transaction.
Emphasizes the fact that a speaker and an audience are a collective rather than two separate
entities.
Credibility will not only depends on how well a speaker has done his research, but will also
depend on whether an audience perceives that a speaker is a competent source of information.
- correct answer ✔✔ TRUE
Powerless speech - correct answer ✔✔ Characterized by the use of language such as hedges,
qualifiers, hesitations, and tag questions.
, Powerful speech - correct answer ✔✔ Fluent and direct.
Credibility-enhancing language - correct answer ✔✔ Words that emphasize rather than
undermine audience perceptions of a speaker's confidence.
Verbal quialifiers - correct answer ✔✔ Words and phrases that erode the impact of what a
speakers says in a speech.
EX. "I'st just my honest opinion..."
"I'm pretty sure, but I could be wrong..."
Way in which we can use language to increase the audiences perception of our competence: -
correct answer ✔✔ 1. Grammar- some colloquial expressions are inappropriate for a speech.
2. Pronunciation- mispronouncing a word can make speaker seem incompetent or change the
meaning of a word.
3. Usage- Using a word incorrectly can be cause to questions a speakers credibility.
4. Truthfulness- Audience must believe that the speaker is trustworthy.
Styles of learning - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Auditory
2. Visual
3. Kinesthetic
Ways in which we can use language to its fullest potential: - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Include
visual, auditory and kinesthetic words in your speech.
2. Use words that "show and tell" your audience what it is you're speaking of. (metaphor, simile,
etc).
3. Use rhythmic speech.
4. Vary language intensity.
