Comm1600exam#1
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- Symbol
- something that represents something else and conveys meaning
- field of experience
- the education, life events, and cultural background that a communicator posseses
- meaning denial
- the refusal to acknowledge the intended meaning of a message
- disqualification
- Communication acts that attempt to deny others the right to speak based on their positions or identities.
- rhetoric
- communication that is used to influence the attitudes of others, the art of persuasion
- paradigm
- belief system that represents a particular worldview
- Humanism
- the belief that science and reason were the pathways to human enlightenment and human nature and it's potential were to be celebrated
- behaviorism
- the belief that actual behavior is the only event worthy of study
- denotative
- the dictionary or literal meaning of the word