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Chapter 5
CA
Term | Definition |
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Content Meaning | The concrete meaning of the message and the meanings suggested by or associated with the message and the emotions triggered by it. |
Relationship Meaning | What a message conveys about the relationship the parties. |
Symbol | Something that represents something else and conveys meaning. |
Human Communication | A transnational process in which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages in specific contexts. |
Participants | The people interacting during communication. |
Culture | Learned patterns of perceptions, values, and behaviors shared by a group of people. |
Absolution | Pertaining to the belief that there is single correct moral standard that holds for everyone, everywhere, every time. |
Field Of Experience | The education, life events, and cultural background that's a communicator possesses. |
Setting | The physical surrounding of a communication event. |
Feedback | The response to a message. |
Messages | The building blocks of communications events. |
Encoding | Taking ideas and converting them into messages. |
Decoding | Receiving a message and interpreting its meaning. |
Channel | The means through which a message is transmitted. |
Noise | Any stimulus that can interfere with, or degrade, the quality of a message. |
Ethics | Standards of what is right and wrong, good and bad news, moral and immoral. |
Communications Ethics | The standards of right and wrong that one applies to messages that are sent and received. |
Societal Forces | The political, historical, economic, and social structures of a society that influence the value hierarchy and affect how we view specific, individual characteristics. |
Reasoned Skepticism | The balance of open-mindedness and critical attitude needed when evaluating others' messages. |
Relativism | Pertaining to the belief that moral behavior varies among individuals, groups, and cultures, as well across situations. |