Intro to Human Communication & Communicating Identities (Ch. 1 & 2)
A transactional process which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal/nonverbal cues. Referred to as a building block of communication.
Message
Cognitive representation and categorization are types of this.
organization
"Lexical choice" is another term for this kind of language.
Vocabulary
When we behave more formally at a wedding than we do at a birthday party, we are responding to THIS element of contextual awareness.
Social situation
A feeling of disorientation and discomfort due to the unfamiliarity of surroundings and the lack of familiar cues to an environment.
Culture shock
The belief that moral behavior varies among individuals, groups, and cultures across situations. In other words, nothing is absolute.
Relativism
A sense-making process in which we attempt to understand our environment so we can respond to it appropriately.
Perception
This theory is a branch of pragmatics that suggests when people communicate, they do not just say things, they do things with their words.
Speech Act Theory
The process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or nonverbal messages.
Listening
This effect refers to the influence that media has on people's every day lives.
Mass Media effects
The fairly stable perception we have of ourselves.
Self-serving bias
The use of language to express oneself artistically or creatively
Imaginative language
The act of using conversational style to attribute specific characteristics to a particular group.
For example, assumptions that a British person is smarter than an American person because of how they sound.
Linguistic Profiling
The idea that people use media messages and find various types of gratifications in some media texts rather than others.
Uses and Gratifcations
Racial identity develops in response to this kind of force.
Social or societal force
The tendency to view one group's standards against which all groups are judged.
Communicative functions associated with the sense of smell.
Olfactics
Listening style that reflects an interest in listening as simply a transaction, focused on the substance, the point of message
Task oriented listening
This approach recognizes that things are not perceived as "either/or" but instead "both/and"
Dialectical Approach
According to the Synergetic Model, THESE are the four factors that influence communication.
1. Individual forces
2. Societal forces
3. Culture
4. Context
Yoon lives in the US, but her mom is from North Korea and her dad is from Taiwan. This makes Yoon THIS kind of border dweller.
border dweller through socialization
This nonverbal behavior is associated with respectful listening in Western social contexts.
Eye Contact
Choosing what you will listen to, as well as how you will respond, is based in THIS decision with respect to listening.
Ethics
Selective Exposure