COMG 151 Lecture 1: COMG 151 Ch.1 Foundations of Human Communication
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Benefits: improve employability: works well w/teams improve relationships interpersonal improve health, psychologically + emotionally. The process of making sense out of the world and sharing that sense w/others by creating meaning through verbal and nonverbal messages . Characteristics: inescapable irreversible: can change the context, impact, or meaning, but cannot take back actual message given. Emphasizes content and relationships: content what is being said, relationship how message is said. Governed by rules: explicit rules you should follow. Ex) speeches requirements on rubric implicit rules you learn over time. Ex) how you talk to diff. ppl talk diff. -ly to friends vs classmates. Communication 1st arose as an action a linear process; 1 way sender originator of the message receiver perceiver of the message message itself unit of info. transmitted. Verbal/nonverbal channel - pathway which message is sent noise - any interference occurring internal: cannot concentrate because hungry.
