Communication & Argumentation
Communication & Argumentation flashcards
104 cards covering the key communication & argumentation vocabulary. Reveal the definition, mark the ones you know, and shuffle for another pass. Recalling a term before you flip — rather than re-reading it — is what moves it into long-term memory.
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- Active listening
- Active voice
- Analogy
- Assertiveness
- Audience analysis
- Authenticity
- BATNA
- Bottom line up front (BLUF)
- Bottom-line-up-front
- Chartjunk
- Checking for understanding
- Claim
- Closed question
- Clutter (in writing)
- Common ground
- Communication
- Communication apprehension
- Concision
- Concreteness
- Congruence
- Constructive feedback
- Core message
- Counterargument
- Credibility
- Cuneiform
- Curse of knowledge
- Data visualization
- De-escalation
- Decoding
- Deepfake
- Difficult conversation
- Echo chamber
- Encoding
- Encoding and decoding
- Ethos
- Ethos, pathos, logos
- Evidence
- False dilemma
- Feedback loop
- Framing
- Gaslighting
- Gish gallop
- High-context communication
- Inoculation
- Integrative negotiation
- Interest
- Inverted pyramid
- Jargon
- Kill your darlings
- Leading question
- Listening to reply
- Loaded question
- Logos
- Low-context communication
- Manipulation
- Mass media
- Medium
- Movable type
- Narrative transportation
- Natural frequencies
- Noise
- Noise (communication)
- Nonverbal communication
- Observation versus judgement
- Open question
- Paraphrasing
- Pathos
- Penny press
- Plain language
- Position
- Printing press
- Probing question
- Propaganda
- Protégé effect
- Pyramid principle
- Qualifier
- Reasoning
- Rebuttal
- Receiver
- Reciprocity
- Reflective question
- Revision
- Ruinous empathy
- Rule of three
- Scaffolding
- Sender
- Shared meaning
- Shared mental model
- Show, don’t tell
- Signposting
- Situation-Behaviour-Impact
- Social media
- Social proof
- Steelmanning
- Sticky idea
- Straw man
- The medium is the message
- Tone
- Transition
- Voice (in writing)
- Warrant
- Weak ties
- World Wide Web
- Zero-sum thinking