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An educated informed hunch.


reexamined


educated informed


Systematic approach to studying your hunches

Theory

A system of relationships and how you articulate these relationships. A well reasoned argument that allows for predictions.

A record of a message that can be analyzed by others; for example, a book, film, photograph, or any transcript or recording of a speech or broadcast.

Text

It is everything

The relational process of creating and interpreting messages that elicit a response.
Communication

How meaning is exchanged


Always relational process How messages are interpreted

Data collected through direct observation.
Empirical Evidence

data collected through observation and experimentation

SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL

CYBERNETIC TRADITION


RHETORICAL TRADITION


SEMIOTIC TRADITION


SOCIO-CULTURAL TRADITION


CRITICAL TRADITION


PHENOMENOLOGICAL TRADITION

7 “Traditions” of Communication
Communication as Interpersonal Interaction and Influence
THE SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL TRADITION

How can I get others to change


cause and effect that predict results. If this then that.

The study of information processing, feedback, and control in communication systems.
THE CYBERNETIC TRADITION

Network culture


Ecosystems- Webs


Systems approach

The art of using all available means of persuasion, focusing on lines of argument, organization of ideas, language use, and delivery in public speaking.
THE RHETORICAL TRADITION
The study of verbal and nonverbal signs that can stand for something else, and how their interpretation impacts society.
THE SEMIOTIC TRADITION

A tradition of symbols and how they are interpreted.


Exit signs Green or Red

The claim that the structure of a language shapes what people think and do; the social construction of reality.
THE SOCIO-CULTURAL TRADITION

Are we all aware of the water we are swimming in?


Make visible what is invisible


People produce and reproduce their culture through language.



Communication as a Reflective Challenge to Unjust Discourse
THE CRITICAL TRADITION

Challenging assumptions


digs beneath the surface of culture

Intentional analysis of everyday experience from the standpoint of the person who is living it; explores the possibility of understanding the experience of self and others.
THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL TRADITION

Nobody understands what it is like to be me.


How does the world get in your way

Knowledge and understanding that the world is a social construction.



Social Constructivism

Nothing is natural about our knowledge.


Knowledge is constructed collaboratively.

Meaning


Language


Thinking

Symbolic Interactionism

Empathy- ethical


someone filming something they should be stopping


why are they insisting that people learn the same thing at the same time 3 tracks.


You a picture and you are told to translate. MLT

a self fulfilling prophecy that diminishes or degrades something or someone

Self-Validating Reduction

Declare your limitations and they are yours.



The process of developing intimacy in relationships


gradual superficial to personal



Social Penetration Theory
onion model

self-disclosure


social exchange


Movie Shrek ogres are like onions

Idea that we are thinking with our whole bodies. Our cognition is influenced by our physical interactions

Embodied Cognition

Hot coffee in hand: that person is warm, caring etc.


Cold drink in hand: that person is standoffish cold etc.

dialectics – integration/separation,openness/closedness,reality/expectation, etc. utterance flux aesthetic moment critical sensibility constitutive dialogue

Movie 500 days of Summer

Relational Dialectics Theory
A dynamic knot of contradictions in personal relationships; an unceasing interplay between contrary or opposing tendencies.

Chain of : any comment used to make sense of the world in a cultural context. Has a history embedded in present, past and the future. gestures count as words.

utterance

Relational dialectics theory.


example: hands up don't shoot.


The central building blocks of meaning- making, where utterances are linked to competing discourses already heard as well as those yet to be spoken.

Things are always in change and things are pulled in different directions. can also be opportunity

Flux

The unpredictable, unfinalizable, indeterminate nature of personal relationships.

moment of unity that promotes respect- ritual can play a role in this. Can be self- respect

Aesthetic Moment

A fleeting sense of unity through a profound respect for disparate voices in dialogue.

need to critique dominant structures and acknowledge that some voices are silenced an shouldn't be.

Critical Synsibility

An obligation to critique dominant voices, especially those that suppress opposing viewpoints; a responsibility to advocate for those who are muted.
integration/separation, openness/closedness, reality/expectation, etc.
Dialectics
Communication that creates, sustains, and alters relationships and the social world; social construction.
Constitutive dialogue
Family system

Axioms of


Punctuation


Enabler


Double bind


Reframing


symmetrical vs complementary


pieces of April

Interactional View

relationships are a system


resistant to change


issues of control, power and status


focuses on effects and not on causes

one cannot not communicate


communication = content + relationship


relationships depend on how both parties punctuate


all communication is symmetric or complementry

Axioms of International View

one cannot not influence

A self-regulating, interdependent network of feedback loops guided by members’ rules; the behavior of each person affects and is affected by the behavior of another.

Family System

a network of feedback loops guided by family rules that maintain the status quo. The behavior of each person effects others.

Interpreting an ongoing sequence of events by labeling one event as the cause and the following event as the response.

Punctuation

Think of nagging cycle. You nag me to do this and I withdraw so you believe that you have to nag me again.

Passive behavior promotes others problematic behavior. actions that permit continued dysfunction.

Enabler
Within addiction culture, a person whose nonassertive behavior allows others to continue in their substance abuse.

mother goes to hug son and because of her stiffening he draws back and she says why don't you love me.


be spontaneous


mutually exclusive set of expectations in a relationship

Double Bind

A person trapped under mutually exclusive expectations; specifically, the powerful party in a complementary relationship insists that the low-power party act as if it were symmetrical.

leave behind your ego to step out of your perspective. exhibit empathy. needs interpretations.

Reframing

The process of instituting change by stepping outside of a situation and reinterpreting what it means.

equal power status vs non equal power status.

symmetrical vs complimentary

study of relationships between organisms and their environments.


our environment. systems matter.

Ecology

We are shaped by our relationships. Our being is always in relationship to others and that relationship shapes who we are.

Relational Ontology

to go deeper and think carefully


how likely is someone to pay attention to a message

Elaboration Likelihood Model

receiver must: be cognitive


rational processing


direct personal impact


aware of thoughts


rationality non emotional



Central Route

superficial emotional thinking


images advertising repetition

Peripheral route

top down already have your opinion.


preaching to the choir



biased elaboration

Bottom up: coming into this as a blank slate. have to consider the facts on their own merit.

objective elaboration

is when you consider the opinions of certain individuals to be better because of their status or credentials.

Argument from Authority

claim that if something has not been proven that it is not the case or it has not been disproven than it is the case.

Argument from Ignorance

so focused on maintaining group peace or cohesion that no one challenges it.



Groupthink

attack the person not the argument

Ad hominem fallacy

attacking the origins of the argument not the argument.

Genetic fallacy
Problem Analysis

Goal Setting


Identification of Alternative


Evaluate

Function Perspective of Group DecisionMaking & its major claims

full thought. complete uninterupted statement

Functional Utterance

focused on the topic and advances problem solving

Promotive Communication

disrupts conversation. takes off topic

Disruptive Communication
can bring people back to rational inquiry.
Counteractive Communication

Organizations do not just have culture they are culture.

Cultural Approach to Organizations
Culture

Organizational Culture


Ethnography


Thick Description & its stepso Stories (corporate, personal,collegial)


Rituals

Normative rules of particular groups that is expressed in things like language, shared meaning.

Culture

How does work become your culture.

Organizational Culture

describing social discourse


figure out how people within a culture define themselves

Ethnography

1. describe the talk and actions content of discourse


2. reveal the emotion


3. assign motivation, intervention and purpose to the discourse


4. write up in lots of detail


5. interpret it

5 steps of Ethnography


Thick description

discourse


emotion


motivation


detail


interpret

corporate


personal


collegial

Stories

language


stories


rituals

Three perspectives



we can only support 150 close relationships

Dunbar’s Number

we have to do it this way because this is how it has always been done.

Appeal to Tradition