COMS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Weak Interaction

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Communications Studies
• Course: COMS 201
• Professor: Dawn Johnson

Document Summary

We use communication rules to make meaning when interacting with others. We learn patterns of communication and interpretation that guide our behaviours. Human communication is rule guided and rule following. Hierarchy of meaning: 6 levels of meaning which helps us interpret others" action and structure our own responses. Content: literal meaning of the words ( i hate you) Speech act: action performed by speaking (declaring anger, are we joking) Episode: frame and context of situation (whats going on to cause me to say i ate you, the circumstances) Relationship: the way you usually interact with the person you are talking to (if you guys are close, if you say i hate you, you can interpret it as a joke) Autobiographies: how we see ourselves (do i see myself as someone who is a prankster, someone who is casual i think i can get away with saying i hate you as people will think i am joking)