COMM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Loaded Language, Nonverbal Communication, Arbitrariness

• School: WPUNJ, WPU
• Department: COMM - Communication
• Course: COMM 110
• Professor: Lynne Orr

Document Summary

Test questions: give two words that have changed over time and describe why they might have changed. How do rules guide verbal communication: language allows us to. Reflect on ourselves and the world around us. Define who we are and want to be. Arbitrariness the quality of being based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system. Ambiguity uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language. Abstraction existing in thought: principles of communication. Institutional facts changes within the institution. Loaded language example old geezer, offensive. Experiences and ideas that are not part of your concrete, daily reality. Responsive how responsive you are to someone can communication how you are to them. Liking how much you like them. Power and how much influence you have on them: guidelines for effective verbal communication. Keeping the person in the center of the communication, Indexing: own your feelings and thoughts. Avoid you language (putting blame on someone else)