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Interpersonal Communication

Is the complex process through which people produce, interpret, and coordinate messages to create shared meanings, achieve social goals, manage their personal identities and carry out their relationships.

Communication Theories

Systematic and research based explanations of how communication works.

Communication Skills

Combination of goals, plans, and scripts that are effective and appropriate for specific messages, interactions, and relationships.

Message

A performance that uses words, sentences and/or nonverbal behaviors to convey the thoughts, feelings, and intentions of the speaker.

Encoding

Creating messages that convey our meaning and goals by selecting words and behaviors that we believing represent our ideas and feelings.

Message Production Process

What we think and do to encode a message.

Decoding

Making sense of the message we receive

Message interpretation process

what we think and do to decide a message

Message coordination process

Adjusting messages to accommodate the message of the person we are talking to

Communication Context

The set of background conditions surrounding the interaction

Interaction Goals

The things a message sender wants to accomplish through communication

Goal-Plan-Action Theory

A theory of message production that posits that goals motivate us to communicate, but planning determines what we actually say.

Message Planning

Identifying one or more message strategies you can use that will accomplish your interaction goal.

Message Interpretation

The process of understanding a message you have received

Interactive coordination

The activity participants in a conversation perform to adjust their behavior to those of their partner

Feedback

Information about how a message was interpreted by its recipient, conveying in a subsequent message

Communication Context

The set of background conditions surrounding an interaction, including the physical, social, historical, psychological, and cultural context

Physical context

The setting of the communication

Psychological context

The mood and feeling each person brings to an interpersonal encounter