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| By their very nature, are arbitrary, ambiguous and abstract. |
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| In people, not in the words. |
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| The same symbols can have different meanings and because there are many different symbols which represent the same or similar things. |
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| What is being referred to with a symbol can vary in the concreteness or singularity by the persons perspective. |
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| Triangle of Meaning is... |
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| The idea of denotative and connotative meanings. |
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| Connotative meanings are... |
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| Our personnal experiences, feelings, and unshared understandings of the word or gesture. |
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| Not in the words, the meanings are in the people. Words don't mean, people do. |
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| Defined as the multiple systems of rules, normal routines, standard operating procedures, even our own individual ways of communicating with one another, which then control or largely determine the way we behave without our even being aware of it. |
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| Hedgemonic and hidden when no one notices it but everyone complies with it nonetheless. |
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| How much of communication is the verbal part? |
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| How much of communication is the nonverbal part? |
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| What is the intimate distance? |
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| What is the Personal Space distance? |
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| What is the Social distance? |
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| Ranges from 4 ft to 12 ft. |
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| What is the Public distance? |
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