COM 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Forces, Ethnography, Organizational Communication
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More successful at relationship development & maintenance. Transactional process: in which people generate meaning. Through the exchange of verbal and nonverbal message: in specific context and. Transactional process: when people communicate they act together, com. is ongoing, who people are to each other and their relationships arise out of their interaction. An exchange of messages: messages are symbolic, symbols rep. something else (and they covey a meaning) arbitrary, meaning creation. Iconic- signs that represents the thing itself close to something else smily face. Indexical something beyond the thing itself indicates smoke means fire. Relationship meaning: a process embedded in culture. Learned patters of perception values and behavior. Shared by a group of people: com is embedded in your culture!!!, process occurring in context. Communication between to people generally in a face to face interaction: small group communication. Communication between three or more individuals who come together for a common purpose: organizational.
