COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968), Human Communication, Jargon

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1101
• Professor: Dale Herbeck

Document Summary

The mehrabian studies: non-verbal elements of a message are particularly important for communicating feelings. Chapter 1: about human communication: human communication is a (transactional) process in which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal and non-verbal messages (in specific contests, influenced by individual and societal forces and embedded in culture). 7 components of human communication: message creation. Encoding involved taking ideas and converting them into messages. A symbol is something that represents something else either verbally, non- verbally, or through an object. Decoding involves receiving a message and interpreting its meaning: meaning creation. Denotative meaning is the concrete meaning of the message. Connotative meaning describes the meaning suggested by the message and the emotions that it triggers. Relationship meaning describes what the message conveys about the relationship between the parties: setting. Includes the location where the communication occurs, the environmental conditions, the time of day or the day of the week, and the proximity of the communicators: participants.