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Term | Definition |
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Human Communication | the process of creating meaning through symbolic interaction |
Transactional | More accurate than linear communication |
Transactional | Dyad, or dyadic meaning two people conversing back and forth |
Linear | one person speaking to another, no feedback. |
Competence | Knowledge, skills, abilities |
A competent communicator... | both understands and deomonstrates proficiency. |
Sympathy | is compassion |
Empathy | you feel what they are feeling |
communication.... | is continuous, transactional, utilizes symbols, body inflection, and is a PROCESS |
what is a competent communicator | someone who can clearly express and idea or thought and receive the same. |
Noise | anything that interfers with effective communication |
message | any stimulus that other people create meaning from ie. hair color, clothes |
feedback | a nod, smile, "hello." |
social | need to be with other people, have interpersonal relationships |
5 types of communication | interpersonal, intrapersonal, small group, public and mass |
Interpersonal | dyad, two way conversation |
intrapersonal | voice in your head |
small group | everyone has equal opportunity to communicate |
public | one to many, like a convention, lecture |
mass | worldwide, will go on for days, every channel |
high context | lots of words, fluffier, more concerned with the group, cultivistic cultures |
low context | few words, gets to the poin, individualistic cultures |
culture | shapes communication |
Culture | language, values, beliefs, traditions and customes |
salience | how much weight you put on cultures ie. how they dress, eat, pray... |
individualistic | about the me |
cultivistic | about the group |
ethnocentrism | your race/culture is better than everyone elses |
coculture | a culture within a group, like gamers, fly-fishers |
self-concept | shapes perceptions of self and others and influences communication with others |
perception | how we acquire information through our senses. seeing and hearing are very important to perceptions. |
percepton checks (3 parts) | description of senses, interpretation, confirmation |
What does this mean? Meanings are in people | it means it is as much about how we perceive. |
successful communication occurs when | we negotiate the meaning of a statement. |
language has the power to | shape and reflect attitudes |
men communicate to.... | accomplish a task |
women communicate to... | nourish relationships |
euphenisms | another name for something that means the same thing but in a nicer way. |
responsibility of language means to use | "I" instead of "it", "I" instead of "you", questions are less responsible than statements, and but cancels verythign before it. |
Functions of communication (4) | physical, identity, social and practical |
physical need of communication | food, air, water |
identity | who, what you are, what people think about you, hair, tattoos, hat, jacket, language, how you present yourself |
social need in communication | sense of belonging, escapism, relaxation, connected |
practical needs of communication | put money in the bank, buy food for family |
communication is the porcess of creating meaning through symbolic interaction and represents | the past, present and future. |
Interculture Communication Competence | requires understanding of human differences within a society, genuine wanting to learn |
self-fulfilling prophecies | influences behavior, if you believe you are going to be successful, you will likely be successful |
sympathy | validates feelings |
empathy | feel feelings |
perceived self | the person you prerceive yourself to be, honest self-examination |
presenting self | the way we want to appear to others, face time |
narratives | social stories we create to make sense of the world (personal story) |
Rules of language | phonological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic |
phonological | how words sound |
syntactic | how words are arranged/structured |
semantic | meanign of words ie. book is for reading, car is for driving |
pragmatic | how we use speech |
troublesome language | um, uh, like, you know,... |
troublesome language | period vs. menstrual cycle |
relative words | gain meaning by comparison |
slang words | used by people with similar co-culture |
jargon | specialized vocabulary - shorthand - for people within a common backgound/experience ie. medical coding |
troublesome language | abstract language which refers to events or objects vaguely. "that is an interesting answer" when what you are thinking is something completely different. |
Identity Management |