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Intrpersonal Comm
Terms and Therories of Interpersonal Communication -Positive Comm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Symbolic Interactionism | self is acquired as one is talked into membership in the human community |
| altercasting | the process by which we frame other people's identities or roles in our talk |
| How is altercasting done? | we implicitly or explicitly communicate how we see others; includes the subtle ways in which communicators give meaning to others. |
| ossification | if identities are projected frequently enough, they eventually produce modifications in the self |
| couple identity work | the way through which couples define one another through talk; the positive or negative defining talk is consequential to the relationship |
| intertextualization | the process through which human beings' discourses blend together. |
| reported speech | when people quote another person in their talk; "speech that is attributed by a current speaker to another speaker" ie direct quoting (assigns responsibility for the utterance to another person) |
| indirect reported speech | when a speaker is paraphrasing another person's words or their own. |
| authoring | giving text to another person. all persons repeat speech from other interactions throughout life. |
| self-actualization | an ongoing process that involves making choices of either regression or progression |
| regression choice | a movement toward defense, safety, being afraid, concealing, withdrawal, dishonesty, criticize |
| progression choice | a movement toward growth, honesty, reveal, closeness, compliment, connection |
| compliment | a speech act which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than he speaker; usually the person being addressed, for some 'good' which is positively valued by the speaker and the hearer. |
| 5 to 1 ratio | for every negative act there are five positive acts that compensate it to produce positive relational outcomes. |