For Speakers to Be Consistently Efficient at Verbally Conveying Their

question 47

Multiple Choice

For speakers to be consistently efficient at verbally conveying their intended meanings, they must

• A) understand that intended meanings may not be fully conveyed by a message because of a variety of factors.
• B) use shared language that has a universal meaning.
• C) reiterate their message more than once to the recipient.
• D) constantly define what their words mean during an communication interaction.

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