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Aristotle
1st to study comm. in as an academic study. Born in 384 BCE.
Began studying it because he wanted to know how to participate in democracy.
Rhetoric
3 modes of persuasion: Ethos - speaker's character revealed through communication , pathos - Evoking a feeling/expressing emotion , logos - (think), actual words used by the speaker
National Association of Academic Teachers of Public Speaking--wanted to reclaim their position as scholars
1914
Midwest School
1914--Those who studied rhetoric or speech effects which was viewed as science.
Cornell School
1920 - viewed study of communication as art
National Association of Teacher of Speech
1923
What years did "Communication" become the buzzword
Early-Mid 1900s
Speech association of America
1946
Pragmatics of Human Communication: Who is the author and what year published?
1967-Watzlawick, Beavin Bouelas, and Jackson
argued that we cannot not communicate due to nonverbal comm.
also that in multi-channeled nature, language is the channel
New Foci of communication of mid 1900s
Small Group
Organizational
Intercultural
Speech Communication Association
1970
Interpersonal Communication:
Roger's Ph.D. was the first dissertation on interpersonal communication. What was she coined?
1972 - The grandmother of interpersonal communication.
National Communication Association
1997
Progression of Topics of Study
-Rhetoric
-Speech effects
-Small Group/organizational
/intercultural
-Interpersonal
What school of thought do we align?
Midwestern
Paradigmatic Orientations
Post-positive paradigm- Most commonly used Asserts that there are laws in nature that can be discovered through our senses or through logic.

Interpretive paradigm - Interviews create rich, detailed info to look for themesAsserts that humans cannot be studied using physical science models. predictions cannot be made.

Critical Paradigm - Newest, least common paradigm, power, struggles, and how they relate to interpersonal communication. people can perceive reality outside them and represent that reality with language. Focuses on oppression.
Communication
continuous, complex, collaborative process of meaning making.
Communications
The channel or medium messages are delivered.
Models of Communication
Linear (transmission)
Interactive - 2 way practice
Transactional - Most modern and complex--shared meaning.
Axioms
Communication involves patterns
'' is bi-dimensional (Context & Relational dimension)
" is context-bound
" involves ethical choices
" is unrepeatable
- no one form of interaction is a panacea (cure-all)
- messages are irreversible
- effective communicating is learned
Maslow (year)
1968
Basic needs:
-physical
-safety
-belonging
-self-esteem
-self-actualization
Schutz (year)
1966
-Inclusion
-Affection
-Control
What is interpersonal communication?:

Quantitative

Qualitative
quantitative: any interaction btwn 2 people

qualitative: when we treat ppl as unique individuals regardless of context in which the interaction occurs, or the number of individuals involved.
Interpersonal Communication takes place when...
we communicate with others based on them being people - not w/ interchangeable parts.
Who highlights the "personal" part?
Stuart
Bueber's Language
I-it - dialogue with a person that involves their specific, isolated qualities. (detachment)

I-you - mutual, holistic experience of two beings.

I-thou - engage with another person in dialogue involving their whole being. Not with specific, unique qualities. (mutuality)
Parks (2009) says interpersonal comm is important because:
It improves immune systems, and reduces risk of heart disease.
Areas of perception:
Selection
Organization
Interpretation
Negotiation
What attracts our selection?
Intense stimuli
repetitive stimuli
changing stimuli
stimuli that match our experiences
Prototypes
ideal representation of something
personal constructs
yardsticks to measure people (continuum) Includes:
-physical
-role
-interaction
-psychological
stereotypes
even positive sounding ones can be victimizing
scripts are:
guides to action
Interpretation (how we make sense of particular experiences) attributions include:
Locus - cause/impetus (internal or external)

Stability (stable or unstable)

Specificity (specific - to you, or global-to many people)
Influences on perception: physiological factor
Age
senses
health
fatigue
hunger
biological cycles
neurobehavioral challenges
Influences on perception: psychological factors:
mood
self-concept
Influences on perception: Cultural and social
Individualistic/Collective Worldview
Low/High Context Worldview - low =more abrasive, direct
Low/High Power Distance Worldview - low = equality and high = non equality.
Low/High Uncertainty Avoidance - low - tolerate change and high = avoid change
Masculine/Feminine Orientation
Social Class
Race
Ethnicity
Religion
Influences on perception: Miscellaneous factors:
-Cognitive complexity
-Roles
ways of improving on perception:
Avoid the self-serving bias -
A self-serving bias is when a person describes their own behaviour and tend to choose attributions that are favourable to themselves. This means that people like to take credit for their good actions and let the situation account for their bad actions.





Avoid the fundamental attribution error - A fundamental attribution error is when people try to find reasons for someon's behaviour, they tend to overestimate personality factors and underestimate situational factors.


Stay aware of the halo and horn effects - halo = pos. 1st impressions yield pos. subsequent impressions. Horn = negative impressions yield subsequent neg. impressions.

Understand the limits of perception = Laws of placement: every individual is placed in ourworld and our placement allows us to "see" certain things and disallows us to see other things.
"Surplus of seeing" means outside our vision

Reject mind-reading on two levels


Perception check
1) restate what just happened
2)ask for 2 realistic explan
phonetics
Unit of sound
Sapir Whorf
your language determines your culture
Semantics
meaning of language
morpheme
unit of meaning
free - unit that can exist in and of itself

bound - must be connected to a free morpheme (prefix or suffix)
Language is:
symbolic
rule-governed
tied to perception
biased
tied to speech communities

a tool that creates our realities
Who said this: "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world"
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Emotive language
language that conveys a bias - more than just descriptive
Linguistic relativism
worldview of a culture is shaped by the language they speak.
Syntactics
sentence structure
pragmatics
how context contributes to the meaning of a language. (Ex. you have a green light can mean various things given diff. contexts).
Speech communities
different ways which communities speak.
hedges
kinda, sorta
similarities of nonverbal to verbal
symbolic
rule governed
often culture bound
Chronemics
Edward Hall coined monochronic and polychronic
paralanguage
rate pitch inflection, etc.
haptics
use of touch to communicate
chromatics
color
body endowment
things you can't change
body modification
changeable factors - hair color, style, tatoos, piercings
body adornment
regularly change (clothing, makeup)