Language
This refers to the assumption that people work together to advance a conversation.
What is Grice’s cooperative principle?
This refers to human actions that have the potential to form meaningful messages.
What is nonverbal behaviors?
These are cultural prescriptions about when, where, and how emotions should be expressed.
What are display rules?
A lack of information about a conversational partner
What is uncertainty?
This channel of nonverbal communication refers to the use of space.
What is proxemics?
This is the literal, public and conventional definition of a word.
What is denotative meaning?
Example of this are holding hands, holding someone in public which will make relationships evident.
What are tie signs?
This is the ability to understand and manage one's own feelings, as well as the moods and emotions of others.
What is emotional intelligence?
The tendency to match our own disclosure to those made by our partner.
What is the norm of reciprocity?
What is initiating?
This refers to words that refer to specific events and behaviors or tangible objects that are available to the senses.
What is concrete language?
Pitch, tone, and rate of speech are examples of this type of nonverbal channel.
What is paralinguistics?
Examples of this type of emotions are sadness, depression, grief, and loneliness.
What is melancholic emotions?
This theory suggests that our personalities are multilayered like the layers of an onion.
What is Social Penetration Theory?
This refers to studies of meaning.
What is semantics?
This suggests that language shapes habitual thought and ideas encoded into language are more salient.
What is linguistic relativity?
This occurs when people show an entirely different emotion from the one they are truly feeling.
What is masking?
This component of emotion makes our body ready and compels us to perform behaviors.
What is action tendencies?
The rule of______ dictates that each partner's rewards should be proportional to his or her costs.
What is Distributive Justice?
This refers to a cultural trait that reflects desire to do one thing at a time.
What is monochronic time orientation?
This notes that language is more than a system of representation, but rather a vehicle for social actions.
What is Speech Act Theory?
What is emblems?
This is a collection of theories that link evaluations of a situation to emotional experiences.
What are appraisal theories of emotion?
This stage of Knapp’s model of relationship development/dissolution is characterized by physiological distance, sharing less information, and avoiding controversial topics.
This suggests that when in communication, we should strive to be clear, organized, and to the point.
What is Maxim of Manner?