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Broadest definition of communication
process of acting on information. TERM 2
spoken symbolic
interaction
DEFINITION 2 the way people use symbols to create common meaning and to share that meaning with one another. TERM 3
non verbal
interaction
DEFINITION 3 the unspoken oftenunintentionalbehavior that accompanies verbal communication and helps us fully interpret its meaning. TERM 4
predictive function
DEFINITION 4 "if..then" questions TERM 5
control function
DEFINITION 5 a street map not only describes the lay out of a city but also allows you to find your way from one place to another
psychological perspective
it focuses on what happens inside the heads of communicators as they transmit andreceivemessagesmodel :a-> sender a encodes message -> message travels through channel -> reciever b decodes message-> person b mental set-> sender b encodes message-> message travels through channel -> receiver a decodes message TERM 7
social constructionist
perspective
DEFINITION 7 where people using tools provided by their culture create collective representations of reality. ( relationship tween communication and culture)people in groups: collective representations of reality: 1)cognitivecustoms 2) shared roles and rules 3) cultural traditions 4)symboliccode TERM 8
pragmatic perspective
DEFINITION 8 a system of interlockingindependentmoves which become patterned over time. ( games people play when they communicate) (chess) TERM 9
mental
set
DEFINITION 9 consists of a persons beliefs values attitude and feelings TERM 10
subject position
DEFINITION 10 a role or stance to take when responding to the text
what is verbal communication?
a systemic process in which people interact with and through symbols in the form of spoken written words to create and interpret meaning. TERM 17
language
DEFINITION 17 a rule governed symbol system that allows users to generate meaning and to make sense of reality TERM 18
arbitrariness
DEFINITION 18 a word does not have any inherentassociationwith what it representsex. is there anything doglike about this word? TERM 19
abstraction
DEFINITION 19 language allows us to see things through more general categories(like all pictures of a house we call them a house.) TERM 20
ambiguity
DEFINITION 20 words and sentences often have more than one meaningdepending on context experience identitiesinterests.ex. we saw her duck ( the animal or under something)
verbal v. non verbal
verbal is based on symbols in the form of spoken written word and non verbal is everything else. TERM 22
kinescis
DEFINITION 22 body movement gesture, eye behavior, facial expressions. TERM 23
emblems
DEFINITION 23 a type of body movement / gesture whose direct verbal translation is known to the members of a social cultural group. TERM 24
paralanguage
DEFINITION 24 vocal qualities characteristics of the voice ...they paint what is being said ex. tones volume pitch"i have a research proposal to write... boring busy happy excited" TERM 25
hypodermic needle
DEFINITION 25 1930-
parasocial interaction
relationship
coined by donald horton and richard wdhl 1956people who are having parasocialinteractionexperience feelings ofintimacy, bonding, andfamiliaritywith the personae. TERM 32
wilbur schramm's model
DEFINITION 32 feedback> (encoder source decoder) >message > (encoderreceiverdecoder) TERM 33
independent variable
DEFINITION 33 cause x TERM 34
dependent variable
DEFINITION 34 y effect
