COM 100- Ch. 4-Verbal Communication
Terms
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- nonverbal
- all forms of communication other than words themselves
- verbal
- words and only words
- arbitrary
- random or nonnecessary...symbols are this because there is no necessary reason for any particular symbol to stand for a particular referent
- ambiguous
- subject to multiple meanings...symbols are this because their meanings vary from person to person/context to context etc...
- abstract
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removed from concrete reality...symbols are this because they are inferences and generalizations abstracted from reality
opposite=concrete - brute facts
- objective, concrete phenomena
- institutional facts
- meanings people assign to brute facts that are based on human interpretation
- communication rules
- shared understandings of what communication means and what behaviors are appropriate in various situations
- regulative rules
- communication rules that regulate interaction by specifying when, how, where, and with whom to talk about certain things
- constitutive rules
- communication rules that define what communication means by specifying how certain communication acts are to be counted
- punctuation
- defining the beginning and ending of interaction or interaction episodes
- totalizing
- responding to a person as if one aspect of that person is the total of who the person is
- loaded language
- an extreme form of evaluative language that releies on words that strongly slant perceptions and thus meanings
- hypothetical thought
- thinking about experiences and ideas that do not exist in the everyday reality
- I
- creative, spontaneous, impulsive aspect of self
- Me
- reflective, analytical, socially conscious aspect of self
- static evaluation
- assessments that suggest that something is unchanging or static
- indexing
- technique of noting that statements reflect a specific time and circumstance and may not apply to other times or circumstances