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2. Syntactic rules 3. pragmatic rules
III. Powerless/Powerful:
III. Powerless/Powerful 1. hedges 2. hesitations 3. intensifiers 4. polite forms 5. tag questions 6. disclaimers 7. rising inflections
IV. Language Types:
IV. Language Types 1. Relative Words Comparison Need to explain 2. Euphemisms Use sparingly Pleasant substituted for blunt ones 3. Emotive Attitude 4. Equivocal More than 1 accepted definition 5. Static Evaluation Implies word “is” Generalization that behavior will always happen
V. Disruptive Language:
V. Disruptive Language 1. fact-opinion confusion Preface with qualifier 2. fact-inference confusion Perception checking 3. emotive language Approve/disapprove