Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
Throwbacks
Throwbacks 2
100
A word's explicit, literal meaning; dictionary definition
What is denotation?
100
Word order
What is syntax?
100
Clearness of style
What is clarity?
100
The means used to transmit a message from sender to receiver
What is channel?
100
Something you want to communicate
What is a message?
200
A word's implied or suggested meaning
What is connotation?
200
The content of a message communicated through words
What is substance?
200
The expression of ideas in an appealing and skillful manner
What is grace?
200
The one who initiates a message
What is the sender?
200
Communication about communication
What is metacommunication?
300
Refers to specific items or processes you can see or instantly identify
What is concrete?
300
Brevity and directness in expression
What is economy?
300
An expression that means something other than the literal meaning of its words
What is an idiom?
300
The time or place in which communication occurs
What is the context?
300
Technology that brings a message to many people
What is mass media?
400
A language pattern, often regional, that is different from the typical pattern.
What is dialect?
400
The way a message is expressed
What is style?
400
The use of symbols, the use of grammar, and flexibility and change
What are the characteristics of oral language?
400
The lowest level of communication -- involves the fewest people
What is intrapersonal communication?
400
Process for exchanging ideas and creating meaning
What is communication?
500
Myocardial infarction, plaintiff and defendant, and quarterbacks and receivers are examples of this
What is jargon?
500
One of these refers to general concepts or ideas. The other refers to specific items processes you can see.
What is the difference between concrete and abstract?
500
Anything that blocks or distorts communication
What is interference?
500
Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Person-to-Group, and Mass Media
What are the levels of communication?
500
One is the process of turning ideas into messages. The other is translating communication into meaning.
What are encoding and decoding?
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