As your textbook explains, you are most likely to be successful in a question-and-answer session if you approach each question as a challenge to your competence and intelligence.

When a listener begins to speak well before another speaker utters his/her last word, this attempt at conversational control is

A. an overlap. B. a hedge. C. a politeness form. D. an interruption.

The person who engages in behaviors or activities in social environments is referred to as the ________ by structuration theorists.

A. agency B. structure C. agent D. authoritative resource