COM 219 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Family Therapy, Semiotics, Research Question
13 Jan 2017
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Common elements of communication: messages, message creation, message interpretation, relational process > one on one, people in a group, mass media, messages that elicit response > intentional or not intentional. Communication: the relational process of creating and interpreting messages that elicit a response. Comm theory is systematic and thoughtful response by scholars to question posed via human interaction. Researchers want to discover how most people will react to something: aggregate data > generalizable findings. 5 levels of focus: who, what, to whom, channel, effect. Cultural imperialism- spreading western ideals to other areas. Rhetorical tradition: communication defined as artful public address, discourse- opposite sides talking, focuses on one speaker, practical/ functional, art/ skill. Semiotic tradition: communication defined as process of sharing meaning through signs, signs- anything that represents something for someone, we learn the meaning of signs, we assign meaning to many things, words are also symbols.
