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19 Cards in this Set
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key elements in Wood's definition of communication
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Process (ongoing, temporal/historical, unfinalizable)
Systemic (affects interrelated parts; has “rules”) Symbolic (works through symbols that are abstract REPRESENTATIONS) Focus on meaning: “We do not find meaning in experience itself. Instead, we use symbols to create meaning.” |
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verbal and nonverbal communication (difference)
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Verbal communication: “with words”
Nonverbal communication: “without words” |
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3 major paradigms w/in the discipline of communication
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social scientific paradigm
interpretive paradigm critical paradigm |
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social scientific paradigm
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The social scientific communication paradigm assumes communication is a process that can be measured, predicted, and controlled through objective scientific methods
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interpretive paradigm
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The interpretive communication paradigm assumes that communication is a process of meaning making that cannot be understood simply through analysis of objective data
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critical paradigm
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The critical communication paradigm assumes that research can never be objective or “value-free” and thus that all research pursues a vision of “the best world” as the researchers understand it; our job is to critique (challenge, discuss, engage) these visions of “the best world”
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imagined interactions
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relational maintenance
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Kenneth Burke's concept of guilt as a motivator for public discourse
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technological rationality and critiques of technological rationality
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everyday storytelling
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personal narratives are performances crafted out of memory using tools we associate with theatre, literature, and other aesthetic forms
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performativity
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“how individuals and groups perform identities in everyday life and how they use rituals and other communicative practices to reflect, sustain, and sometimes alter social relations” (Wood 18); i.e., how does performance manifest social realities
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ethnography
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the study of a culture through immersion
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3 significant areas w/in the discipline of communication
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interpersonal and small groups
rhetoric and public address performance studies |
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Interpersonal and small group
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Interpersonal Com (esp. intimate relationships), Small Group
Intrapersonal Com, Organizational Com. Two representative concepts IMAGINED INTERACTIONS: rehearse messages for different situations, such as a job interview or a date; can also offer catharsis or serve as compensation for lack of interpersonal communication RELATIONAL MAINTENANCE: “how partners communicate to deal with the normal and extraordinary challenges of maintaining intimacy over time” |
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rhetoric and public address
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Public Speeches, Political Com, Leadership, Mass Media, Computer-mediated communication, Social Movements. Two representative concepts, GUILT: Kenneth Burke’s concept of the symbolic purging of guilt via mortification, victimage, and scapegoating, CRITIQUE OF TECHNOLOGICAL RATIONALITY: Technological rationality is concerned with “getting things done” and “manufacturing product” ever more efficiently, which means eliminating true dialogue
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performance studies
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Performance as communication, aesthetic discourse, Film/TV/stage
Alternative performance modes Everyday performance (gender, race, relationships). Two concepts: EVERYDAY STORYTELLING and PERFORMATIVITY |
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Com theories methodology: quantitative
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Social scientific—attempts to mirror methods in the “hard sciences”, Generates statistics to describe trends among groups, Descriptive methods, Experimental methods, Goal of theory: to explain and predict communication acts
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Com theories methodology: qualitative
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Textual analysis, Audience response, Historical research
Ideological critique, Ethnography Goal of theory: to examine how discourse reflects, sustains, and sometimes alters social relations |
