When visiting home over the holidays, Deandre knows not to comment on her sister's lifestyle or mention her mother's estranged brother. Deandre is maintaining __________.

Being Indian includes appropriately enacting the communicative behaviors of ________

a. tribal-ness b. Indian-ness c. American-ness d. "Old West"-ness

While giving an anti-drug speech to a group of middle school students, a speaker attempts to use what she believes is common teen slang. Rather than connecting with the audience, the speaker appears insincere because she didn’t consider __________.

a. the connotations this language might have for her audience b. the appropriateness of jargon in a speech c. the dialect commonly used by middle school students d. All of the choices are correct.