COMM 1213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chronemics, Page Layout, Eye Contact
20 Sep 2016
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Confident communication: message is understood, message achieved its intended effect. Conveying a message from one person to another so that its understood by the receiver. The process of making sense out of the world and sharing that sense with others by creating meaning through verbal and non-verbal messages. Its impossible not to communicate: communication is irreversible, communication is unrepeatable, communication is intentional or unintentional. Sender channel medium/media receiver feedback (and back to sender) Communications barriers: technical barriers (physiological, physical, psychological, semantic barriers, environmental barriers (age, sex, culture) Message may be sent, not always received. Meaning is in the mind, not in the message. Characteristics of non verbal communication: communication value. Its powerful: primarily expresses attitude, ambiguous, culture bound, multichannel. Functions: repeat verbal messages, substitute verbal messages, regulate verbal interactions, accent verbal, contradict verbal. Vocal non-verbal: tone, pitch, volume, rhythm, speed/rate, emphasis, articulation, fluencies/ filler, silence.
