In his field research of observing the social life at a nearby truck stop, Benjamin found that the waitresses and employees talked about customers by using a number of categories: "regular," "professional driver," "family tribe," "cowgirl," "pit stopper," "rough rider," "sleezer," "wolf," "trooper," and "lonely heart." Benjamin decided to use domain analysis to analyze his data. In it, the names for types of customers e.g., regular, wolf, etc.) are called
A) folk domains.
B) mixed domains.
C) cover terms.
D) analytic domains.

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CIn domain analysis, the names for types of customers (e.g., "regular," "wolf," etc.) are referred to as "folk domains" because they are categories used by the community being studied to organize their knowledge or social world. These terms are also considered "cover terms" because each serves as a label that encompasses a range of specific instances or examples within that category.

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