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5. We want to find significance. We listen to remarks and want to make sense of them. What
might the speaker mean? Why is he or she saying that? We go beyond specific remarks to
the underlying significance or broader meaning. We seek purposes and reasons.
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What is a generalization? (n.d.). Retrieved on July 8, 2016 from http://mrswarnerarlington.weebly.com/making-generalizations.html