COMM 118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Interpersonal Communication, Political Communication, Identity Politics
21 Mar 2017
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Responding something that happened before, and effecting something that happens next. Messages about identity, action, relating, feeling, dwelling. Host: what do you say to those veterans who don"t get timely health care (and their families) Secretary: i offer my condolencesthis is a good quality health care system, not perfectwe will find the difficulties and try to fix them. Function: what does it do? (messages between people) Structure: how is it put together? (small talk leading up to real topic; interview. Moral injury: condition where the situation was morally corrupt (veterans who have fought in war) General point: communication practices accomplish multiple functions, are structured somehow and processual. Function: create, validate, change indentity and relationships. Structures: terms of identity, personal address and reference, membership categories. Induce cooperation to a partisan vision of the world. Function: communication designed to produce a task, provide a service, and/or make a product. Structured through role categories as workers, leadership.
