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33 Cards in this Set

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Rules theory or Coordinated Management of meaning
- how humans construct meaning from their communication
- rules to coordinate meanings and interactions with others
- hierarchy of meanings
o Barnett Pearce and Vernon Cronen
Speech act
Rules theory or Coordinated Management of meaning
o We do things when we speak
Episodes
- Strange loops (Branham)
o Internal conversations
Are large frames for interpreting speech acts
Rules Theory
Relationships
The some what scripted ways we interact with a particular person
Autobiographies
Individuals view of himself
rules theory
Cultural patterns
Rules theory
Understanding speech acts
Rules
Rules Theory
Allow us to make sense of social interaction
Constitutive rules
Rules Theory
o Define what counts as what
Regulative rules
Rules Theory
Coordinate communication to guide interaction
Logical force
Rules Theory
Felt obligation to an act
Strange loops (Branham)
Rules Theory
Constructivism
- George Kelly
- O’Keefe
- Delia
- Cognitive processes which we use to create meaning.
Cognitive Schema
Constructivism
o Personal constructs are the building blocks of a individuals interpretation of an experience
Prototypes
Constructivism
The broadest cognitive structures. Optimal examples for categories.
Personal constructs
Constructivism
Mental yard stick allow us to measure a phenomenon
phenomenon
Constructivism
- Stereotypes
- Scripts
- Cognitive complexity
How elaborate or complex a persons interpretive process is
Differentiation
Constructivism
o Measures the number of distinct interpretations
- Abstraction
- Organization
- Person centeredness
Constructivism
Interactional theory
- Watzlawick, beavin Jackson

- Communication systems
- General systems theory
- All parts are inherited
- Systems are organized wholes
- the whole is more than the sum of its parts
- openness
- systems strive for but never achieve equilibrium
- homeostasis
- levels of meaning
Interactional Theory
o content meaning
o relationship meaning
• meta communication
- punctuation
- communication and power
o symmetrical
o complementary
- parallel relationships
Interactional Theory
Dialectical theory
- baxter Rawlins
- dialectic
o contrary or opposing tensions
o moments = equilibrium
- contradiction
- process
- relationship dialects
- integration/ separation
- stability/ change
- expression/ privacy
Dialectical Theory
response to dialects
Dialectical Theory

o selection
o separation
o neutralization
o reframing
uncertainty Reduction Theory
Berger Bradac Calabrese
- Laws of behavior
- Axiom
Uncertainty Reduction Theory
o Statement presumed to be true
Social exchange theory
homans blau thibaut Kelley roloff rusbult bunk
- coasts
- rewards
- comparison level
- compairison level alternatives
- equality
- inequality
Social Exchange Theory
Developmental theories
- social penetration model
Standpoint theory
Speech community theory
Organizational culture
social penetration model
o Altman, Taylor
- Honeycutt
- Relationship trajectories
- Turning points
Standpoint theory
- social groups shape our experiences
- Collins haraway Harding Hartsock
- Standpoint
- White studies
- Situated knowledge’s
Speech community theory
- Langer
- Maintain community through shared symbols and meanings
- Communication rules
Organizational culture
- relationship between communication and culture
- Pacanowsky O’Donnell
- Vocabulary
- Stories
o Corporate
o Personal
o Collegial
- Rites and rituals