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| How much of an average person's day is spent communicating in some manner? |
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| How has the "name" and focus of communication study changed over the years? |
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rhetoric - to persuade
elocution - uses gestures, diction, and voice
speech - public speaking ≠ English
communication - not just speaking, also intonation and inflection |
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| What are the distinguishing characteristics of the different communication contexts of communication study? |
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Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Group
Organizational
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Mass Media
Cultural |
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| one person talking to themselves |
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| two people back and forth |
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3 or more people
3-12 is small
13-24 is large |
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| one person talking to many, audience matters |
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| same as public, but the channel communicated through also matters |
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| communication across cultures |
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| Types of Nonverbal communication |
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| Kinesics, vocalics, physical appearance, haptics, proxemics, environment, chronemics |
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| how you're moving, but not touching |
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The process by which individuals interactively create, sustain, and manage meaning
The development of shared meaning through messages |
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| What are the four core concepts in communication? |
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meaning
process
relationship
context |
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| what does "meanings are in people" mean? How is this related to denotative and connotative meaning? |
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| People decide what a thing means. Connotative is hearing a word and associating it with something, denotative is hearing the definition |
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| a word or picture that we as a culture arbitrarily associate with something |
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| Is all communication intentional? Distinguish between the different orientations on intentionality discussed in class--how do they affect our understanding of communication interactions? |
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| Actually depends on your orientation - trick question |
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| ignore everything but what the sender intends to send |
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| Ignore everything but what the receiver receives |
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Only those behaviors that form a socially shared coding system are communication
Sender and receiver’s intentions are taken into account |
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| Dimensions of relationships |
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| Power, dominance, level of affection |
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| romantic, family, parent-child, boss-employee, cross-sex, same-sex, friendship |
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Dyadic, group, organizational
We are changed by those whom with we interact |
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| What is implied by the concept of "process" in communication, and how do we study it?; How does punctuation play a part in studying process? How does F.E.X. Dance describe the process of communication? |
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Communication is dynamic and continually changing
Communication affects and is affected by time and interaction
Like when you first meet someone you like, you always try to look nice and as possible, but later….you don’t care.
Everything is interlinked |
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Steps or stages
Have to stop the process somewhere to talk about
Spiral/helix – not a circle
We can’t study a phenomena in isolation
Always moving
Can’t change one part without changing the whole |
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the search for truth
DO NOT SEPARATE THE KNOWER FROM THE KNOWN |
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| can't explain, something you just KNOW |
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| My mommy did it so I should do it |
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| unexplainable, superstition |
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| How do subjective epistemologies differ from objective epistemologies? |
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| they involve less critical thinking; therefore they are better for everyday life |
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| Commonsense vs. scholarly theory - what does it mean to theorize scientifically, and how is this different from our everyday efforts? |
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Common sense: well, duh.
Scholarly: Systematically attempt through various methodologies to ask and answer meaningful questions while remaining open to alternate explanations |
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| What aspects of science do "theory" and "methods" represent? |
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Theory: logical
Method: research |
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| to explain, predict, and control |
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| qualitative, inductive, subjective, idiographic |
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| quantitative, deductive, objective, and nomothetic |
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