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24 Cards in this Set
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How broad or narrow we want communication to be
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Breadth
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The way people use symbols to create common meaning and to share that meaning with one another
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Spoken Symbolic Interaction
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The unspoken, often unintentional behavior that accompanies verbal communication and helps us fully interpret it's meaning
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Nonverbal Interaction
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Dividing a process into constituent parts and showing us how the parts are connected
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Explanatory Function
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Allows us to answer "if...then" questions
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Predictive Function
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Show's layout and allows you to find your way from one place to another
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Control Function
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Coherent set of assumptions about the way a process operates
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Perspective
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Focuses on what happens"inside the heads of communicators as they transmit and receive messages
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Psychological Perspective
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See's Communication as a process whereby people, using the tools provided by their culture, create collective representations of reality.
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Social Constructionist Persepctive
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Communication consists of a system of interlocking, interdependent "moves" which become patterned over time.
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Pragmatic Perspective
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Any distraction that interferes with or changes a message during transmission
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Noise
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Communication scientists who describe cause-and-effect laws that connect communication variables
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Laws Approach (psychological perspective)
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Four cultural tools according to the social constructionist model
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Symbolic Codes (languages)
Cognitive Customs (way's we've been taught to process information) Cultural Traditions (beliefs, attitudes, and values) Sets of Roles and Rules |
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Believe that human behavior is not so much caused as chosen: To accomplish their goals, people choose certain lines of action and follow certain rules laid down by their cultures.
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Rules Approach (Social Constructionist Perspective)
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Concerned with describing interdependent patterns of behavior rather than individual behavior
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Systems Approach (Pragmatic Perspective)
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An overtly political approach to communication
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Cultural Studies Perspective
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People who common ways of thinking about communication and common styles of talk
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Speech Community
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Clearly marked occasion that calls for a specific type of speech
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Speech Situation
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Identifiable sequences of speech
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Speech Events
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Individual purposeful acts of Communication
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Speech Acts
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Environment in which communication takes place
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Situation
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Tone or Spirit
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Key
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Channels of transmission used
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Instrumentalities
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A specialized type of encoded message
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Genre
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