Communication Models
The model of communication with only a sender, message, and receiver
What is the simplified linear model?
The theory that states that we assert, challenge, and modify our assumptions of our self-identification with others' self-identification.
Smaller cultures that exist within mainstream culture
What are bounded cultures (or co-cultures)?
Philosophical questions about the nature of reality.
What is ontology?
Type of listening where we lend a sympathetic ear?
What is relational listening?
According to Osgood and Schramm's model of communication, every person has these three roles in communication.
What are encoder, interpreter, and decoder?
This theory says that we don't have one self but several selves that correspond with different group memberships.
What is social identity theory?
The ability to put yourself in someone else's position in order to understand them?
What is role-taking?
What is epistemology?
A group of people who regularly interact and come to share the same common language.
What is a speech network?
The model of communication incorporates culture, the immediate context, and the field of experience.
What is the transactional model?
According to politeness theory, we use polite language to protect this.
What is our face (or public self-image)?
The idea that interactions between people in different social groups reduces stereotyping.
What is the contact hypothesis?
Tradition where communication researchers are committed to developing theory using quantifiable, observable, and measurable phenomena.
What is postpostivism?
The implicit, culturally or emotionally enriched meaning.
What is connotative?
The model of communication that contends communication is about the maintenance of society in time.
What is the ritual view?
The conjecture that the language a speaker uses influences how they think.
What is the linguistic relativity hypothesis?
The highest level of cultural competence, according to Howell?
What is unconscious competence?
The ontology of this theory assumes there is not "real" observable reality.
What is interpretive theory?
The occurrence and ordering of words and sounds to convey an intended meaning.
What is syntax?
The key assertion of the constitutive view.
Communication creates reality.
The six selves according to the Looking Glass Self.
What is 1) you, 2) the other, 3) what you think of the other, 4) what the other thinks of you, 5) what you think the other thinks of you, and 6) what the other thinks you think of them?
The additional dimension of national culture added by Hall.
What is high-context and low-context culture?
The three parts of any communication theory.
What are constructs, explanations, and philosophical assumptions?
The element of effective listening that involves both parties interacting.
What is interpreting?