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If you had a condition in which you could not detect a person's tone or nonverbal cues, it would be difficult to assess the context of language. For example, if someone said, Gee, you're so smart in a sarcastic tone, you may misperceive their verbal slight as a compliment. This occurs because you would be relying on ____ processing of language.
 
  a. top-down
  b. formal
  c. bottom-up
  d. informal

Question 2

The statement I had a great time can be interpreted a number of different ways depending on ____.
 
  a. linguistic determinism
  b. spectrographic analysis
  c. the context
  d. the semantics


zogaridan

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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
c

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
c


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