Janet and her boyfriend use the phrase “Do you want to break the ice?” when they want to go out to a movie. This is the _________________ meaning of the phrase.

The three modes in chapter 4 are

A. lyric, dramatic and epic. B. lyrical, dramatistic and epoch. C. character, speaker and audience. D. agent, agency and act.

Tom, who is North American, holds his hand up, palm out, to indicate he wants Theo to stop talking for a moment. To Tom's complete shock, Theo, who is Greek, is angry. Which of the following is true of this incident?

A. Tom's using a nonverbal "emblem." B. Theo misunderstands the emblem because it means something different in his culture. C. Nonverbal communication is difficult to interpret. D. All of the above. E. None of the above.