Re-read the following passage:"The way her bright hazel eyes lit up as she spoke about her passions, the way her pure happiness seemed almost infectious and the way I found myself mirroring the constant smile glued on her face. I liked the way she gave me her full attention as we spoke, fixated on the conversation, completely present. I liked the way she’d pause for a moment before responding, as though charging up all of her thoughts before launching them, speaking at lightning speed, so genuinely interested in our discussion that she was unable to hold the words back."What language device has been highlighted in bold?pathetic fallacya similepersonificationa metaphor

According to our text, verbal communication includes the use of which elements?Group of answer choicesSpoken languageSpoken and written languageWritten languageSpoken language and formal gestures

The passage given below is followed by a set of questions. Choose the correct answer to each question. When we think about the content of a conversation, it’s easy to focus on just the verbal information exchanged through spoken words; however, there are many other factors that colour our interpretation of conversations and, in turn, the information they communicate. One such consideration is the context provided by prosody—the intonation, stress, tempo, rhythm, and pauses in a person’s speech, all of which lend their voice a unique texture. The brain also employs detailed mappings that link different kinds of facial expressions and gestures with the emotions and nuances that they convey. In fact, up to 65% of the raw information in a conversation is exchanged nonverbally. As we continue to investigate human communication, we uncover a highly complex, multi-modal system that comprises many of our senses—including our sense of touch.Though modern messaging systems are efficient in transmitting visual information, they provide a limited channel for expressing emotions and fail to capture the nuances of face-to-face conversations. To express emotion, people often resort to using emoticons, emoji, or shorthand abbreviations (such as the ubiquitous ‘lol’). While emoticons all convey different “happy” emotions, none of these pictographs can convey what it feels like to see a subtle smile creep across someone’s face and cascade into a joyous laugh.Researchers around the world have tried developing new systems to add channels of interactivity to online conversations. Tsetserukou et al. have proposed a series of devices that send simulations of physical sensations to a remote partner using haptic feedback. The HaptiHug, HaptiHeart, and HaptiButterfly send simulations of hugs, heartbeats, and “butterflies in the stomach,” respectively. While this work has provided several innovative approaches to augmenting digital communication, it falls short of providing a direct mapping between the emotional state of a conversational partner and the haptic feedback generated.It may be possible to use sensory substitution to provide such a mapping. Sensory substitution is the stimulation of one sense (like sound) to provide information used in another sense (like vision). Sonification systems offer one potential method for sensory substitution. These systems use non-speech audio to convey information—for example, a Geiger counter, which works by emitting audible clicks when near a source of radiation. Haptic feedback and our sense of touch reinforce and mediate our perception of emotions in further subtle ways. The exchange of touch with a conversational partner can express sympathy, anger, gratitude, fear, love, disgust, happiness, and sadness. Likewise, even incidental or unrelated haptic feedback has been shown to affect an individual’s emotional response to an interaction.Touch is a powerful way to communicate emotion. The innate system we use to elicit emotion offers exciting potential for affective haptics—devices that leverage the sense of touch to evoke emotion. Even more exciting is the potential use of affective haptics in sensory substitution—that is, conveying emotion as a new “sense” through touch. Such a device might help a blind person or someone on the autism spectrum understand the emotions of the person they’re communicating with. The ability to convey subtle variations in emotion presents a further opportunity—any sort of information conveyed through haptic feedback can have emotional associations built in. And what better way to build intuition for something than tapping into how we feel about it?Question 11What does ‘the ubiquitous lol’ mean in the context of the passage?‘Lol’ is one of the most common emoticon used while expressing oneself on social networking sites.‘Lol’ is present throughout the world though its context changes with the mode of communication.‘Lol’ can be used to convey what the person feels without being face-to-face in a conversation.‘Lol’ is one of the most common emoticons used in the new communication modes used today.

ead the following excerpt from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller.Some one was drawing water and my teacher placed my hand under the spout. As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly. I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten–a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that "w-a-t-e-r" meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!Which aspect of narrative writing does it demonstrate?A.ClimaxB.ConflictC.ConclusionD.ExpositionSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

"I liked the way she’d pause for a moment before responding, as though charging up all of her thoughts before launching them, speaking at lightning speed, so genuinely interested in our discussion that she was unable to hold the words back."Type the word that means "in a truthful way".

7 Why is reflexivity considered to be a special property of human language?8 What kind of evidence is used to support the idea that language is culturally transmitted?9 What is the difference between a communication system with productivity and one with fixed reference?10 How did the Gardners try to show that Washoe was not simply repeating signs made by interacting humans?11 If Sarah could use a gray plastic shape to convey the meaning of the word red, which property does her “language” seem to have?12 What was considered to be the key element in Kanzi’s language learning?