Human communication is a transactional process in which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages in specific contexts, influenced by individual and societal forces, and embedded in culture.
What is the definition of human communication.
100
Communication that is used to influence the attitudes or behaviors of others; AKA the art of persuasion.
What is rhetorical communication?
100
These are consistent and enduring identifications in our lives.
What are Primary identities?
100
The three processes of perception.
What are selection, organization, and interpretation?
100
This is the written or oral words or sounds that we exchange.
What is Verbal communication?
200
The people engaged in the communication process.
Who are the participants?
200
Aristotle argued that these three artistic skills are artistic proofs.
What are ethos, pathos, and logos?
200
This is both fixed and dynamic; although a classification may apply throughout someone’s life, the meaning and nuance of that classification may change over time.
What is identity?
200
When you categorize people and then make assumptions about them based on broad generalizations you have about people in that category.
What is stereotyping?
200
These are the interpretive meanings of words.
What is Connotative meanings?
300
Any stimulus that interferes with the quality of a message.
What is noise?
300
Items analyzed by critics that include things like articles, television shows, and music videos.
What are rhetorical artifacts?
300
A term that acknowledges that some people have more than one racial identity.
What is a Multiracial identity?
300
This refers to our ability to focus on only a narrow range of stimuli at any given time.
What is Selective attention?
300
Every language has its own rules; this is known as...
What is grammar?
400
Something that represents something else and conveys meaning.
What is a symbol?
400
This has to do with a rhetor’s use of emotions in public communication. The use of emotions can help align the audience with a particular perspective, if used effectively.
What is the proof of pathos?
400
Is based mainly on a combination of factors like income, education, occupation, dwelling, and child-rearing habits.
What is Social class identity?
400
Perceptions of historical events (like 9/11 or the Great Depression) influence the perceptions and actions of those who live through them?
What is a process called the cohort effect?
400
Changing the way one speaks in different situations is an important linguistic practice that helps speakers of different language and dialects to change the way they speak in order to communicate more effectively in mainstream culture, while demonstrating cultural group membership in other situations.
What is Code switching?
500
A transactional model that depicts communication as occurring when two or more people create meaning as they respond to one another and their environment.
What is the Synergetic Model of Communication?
500
In rhetoric, this is an issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak.
What is exigence?
500
Subtly reminding individuals of stereotypical identity expectations can affect their performance.
What is a stereotype threat?
500
You are more likely to attribute others’ negative behavior to internal causes and their positive behavior to external causes.
What is a bias called the fundamental attribution error?
500
This theory has five assumptions that reflect this relationship between language and power: (1) Hierarchies in each society privilege certain groups of people. (2)
Privileged groups get to set the norms for the acceptable communication for all. (3) Language maintains and reinforces the power of privileged groups. (4) Acceptable language in personal relationships may vary from acceptable language in the greater society. (5) Dominant language structures impede progress of language structures for less dominant groups.