Language 02

What is the scientific study of language called?

• History

• Biology

• Linguistics

• Physics

What is the capacity to understand other people by ascribing mental states to them called?

• Sympathy

• Compassion

• Theory of Mind

• Empathy

What is the ability to take on another's perspective, understand, feel, and respond to their experience called?

• Cognitive Empathy

• Emotional Empathy

• Somatic Empathy

• Spiritual Empathy

What is the process that involves signs, including the production of meaning, called?

• Phonology

• Pragmatics

• Syntax

• Semiosis

What is the deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing one's own emotions called?

• Compassion

• Empathy

• Sympathy

• Alexithymia

What is the feeling of care and understanding for someone in need called?

• Empathy

• Sympathy

• Compassion

• Pity

What is the ability to feel another's feelings called?

• Pity

• Empathy

• Sympathy

• Compassion

What is the process that governs how symbols are used to form sequences known as words or morphemes called?

• Pragmatics

• Semiosis

• Syntax

• Phonology

What is the process that governs how words and morphemes are combined to form phrases and utterances called?

• Pragmatics

• Syntax

• Semiosis

• Phonology

What is the process of relating signs to particular meanings called?

• Phonology

• Syntax

• Semiosis

• Pragmatics