Across
- 5. A pleasant-sounding term used in place of a more direct but less pleasant one
- 7. The specialized vocabulary that is used as a kind of shorthand by people with common backgrounds and experiences
- 8. Linguistic rules that govern the ways in which symbols can be arranged
- 9. Language used by a group of people whose members belong to a similar co-culture or other group
Down
- 1. Accommodating one’s speaking style to another person, who usually is desirable or has higher status.
- 2. Linguistic rules governing how sounds are combined to form words
- 3. A linguistic strategy where speakers emphasize differences between their communicative style and others’ to create distance
- 4. Linguistic rules that govern the everyday use of language
- 6. A collection of symbols governed by rules and used to convey messages between individuals.
- 9. Linguistic rules that govern the meaning of language