"a person's choice of space communication is influenced by status, culture, gender, age, personality, and topic."

The statement "A person's choice of space communication is influenced by status, culture, gender, age, personality, and topic," applies to PROXEMICS.

Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behaviour, communication, and social interaction.

The term was coined by Edward T. Hall in 1963 and defined it as "the interrelated observations and theories of humans use of space as a specialized elaboration of culture".

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.