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The formal study of human communication is often (incorrectly) said to have started in this country.
What is "ancient Greece" or "ancient Rome?"
When people's internal thoughts and feelings accidentally become evident through their nonverbal communication, we say that they are experiencing ____________.
What is "leakage?"
The big difference between nonverbal and verbal communication is whether ___________ is used.
What is "language?"
Goffman argued that humans have _____________.
What is "a complex self" or "multifaceted self?"
This characteristic argues that communication helps build and maintain relationships.
What is "relational?"
______ is the author of Precepts, the oldest known book studying communication.
What is "Ptahhotep?"
We are listening in class and hear our instructor use a word that we have never heard before. We lose focus momentarily on the lecture trying to figure out what the word means. This listening distraction is called ___________.
What is "semantic diversion?"
Saying that nonverbal communication can be read is not true because it does not involve _____________.
What is "language?"
Our own interpretation or "take" on facts is called _____________.
What is "presentation?"
This characteristic argues that humans communicate to both share facts and relay interpretations of information.
What is "presentational/representational?"
This communication organization is the biggest one in the United States.
What is "National Communication Association (NCA)?"
You're talking to someone while multi-tasking and accidentally don't catch that they were saying something sarcastic. You respond to the literal message, and the other person looks really confused. This listening distraction is called _______________.
What is "content listening?"
Words are ___________, which are signs that are not directly connected to what they represent.
What are "symbols?"
This theory argues that we adapt our communication to be more or less similar to other people around us.
What is "Communication Accommodation Theory?"
This characteristic argues that human communication is filled with signs that have to develop meaning through socialization.
What is "symbolic/requires meaning?"
This group of traveling public speaking instructors was highly criticized for valuing delivery over content.
What are "sophists?"
You see someone at a campus event and are trying to assess whether you'd want to pursue a friendship with that person. You start observing how the person acts to determine if you think they act like someone you would want to spend time with. This is called the ________________ filter in Duck's Relationship Filtering Model.
What is "behavior and nonverbal communication filter?"
______________ meaning is the literal, dictionary definition of a word.
What is "denotative?"
This theory argues that humans attempt to save face when asking for favors by using particular strategies.
What is "Politeness Theory?"
This characteristic argues that communication provides us a blueprint/reference point for perceiving the world.
What is "has frames/cultural?"
The actual country in which the communication studies discipline originated is _____________.
What is "ancient Egypt?"
You're in line at the store and someone invades your personal space. If someone analyzed this person's invasion, that person would be studying _________.
When we attempt to relay certain meaning through our nonverbal communication, we are engaging in ___________.
What is "encoding?"
This theory talks about the tensions we experience in relationships, like wanting time to ourselves yet also wanting to spend time with a friend.
What is "Relational Dialectics?"
This characteristic argues that communication takes place in complex environments marked by noise and distractions. It also argues that an exchange is involved.
What is "transactional?"