Communication Basics
A collaborative process where messages are used to participate in social reality
What is communication?
This refers to the meaning of a word as found in a dictionary.
What is denotative meaning?
These are the four relational zones of proxemics, starting from the closest (0–18 inches) to the farthest (over 12 feet).
What are the intimate, personal, social, and public zones?
The three general purposes or types of speeches
What are epideictic (special occasion), informative, and persuasive speeches?
The most common and effective method of delivery, where a speaker uses a carefully prepared outline and has thoroughly practiced
What is extemporaneous speech delivery?
This context of communication involves delivering a message to an audience, which is unified by a common interest.
What is public communication?
This describes the relationship between words, thoughts, and their referents.
What is the triangle of meaning?
The study of touch, which is guided by ethics regarding location, duration, and intensity
What is haptics?
This term refers to the ethical issue of using someone else's work without credit.
What is plagiarism?
The four components of a speaker's paralinguistic skills
What are volume, pitch, rate, and fluency?
This metaphor for communication is a two-way process that involves feedback and fields of experience.
What is communication as interaction?
This refers to the idea that language influences thought.
What is the linguistic relativity hypothesis?
These gestures are used to control turn-taking in conversation.
What are regulators?
This term describes consideration of audience demographics and expectations.
What is audience analysis?
This organizational pattern arranges information based on location.
What is a spatial organization pattern?
These are the four contexts of communication where messages are sent and received.
What are interpersonal, small group, public, and mass communication?
This theory identifies eight levels of interpretation: content, speech act, episode, relationship, self, culture, coordination, and mystery.
What is the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) theory?
The six functions of nonverbal communication
What are repeating, accenting, conflicting, complementing, regulating, and substituting?
An argument that attacks a person's character
What is an ad hominem fallacy?
Brief phrases or words, like "first" or "in conclusion," that let the audience know where you are in the speech.
What are signposts?
This communication metaphor views people as connected, accomplishing something together, and acknowledges that every message has both a content and a relationship dimension.
What is communication as a transaction?
In O'Keefe's theory of message design logic, these are the three personal theories people use to communicate, ranging from simply expressing feelings to creatively redefining problems.
What are expressive, conventional, and rhetorical designs?
These five categories of gestures include substitutions for words, complements to verbal messages, displays of emotion, regulators of conversation, and releases of tension.
What are emblems, illustrators, affect displays, regulators, and adapters?
The seven parts of a thorough introduction
What are the attention getter, thesis statement, preview statement, credibility statement, relevance statement, benefits statement, and transition?
The five organizational patterns for a speech, which include organizing main points by time, subject matter, physical space, cause and effect, or a problem-cause-solution structure.
What are the chronological, topical (categorical), spatial, cause-and-effect, and problem-cause-solution patterns?