CMST 2010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Interpersonal Communication, Blackberry, Political Correctness
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Verbal symbols are important in interpersonal communication for many reasons: language cements social relationships. Words connect people to one another and interpersonal relationships are constructed in everyday conversation: language developed as a means to differentiate members of an in-group from those of an out-group. In-group: people that are familiar with a certain technology and can use and understand certain statements. Out-group: people who are puzzled by such jargon. Misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and inaccuracies often result from our necessary dependence on these symbol systems. Verbal messages can have dramatic (even if unintended) effects. Verbal and nonverbal message systems are inextricably intertwined, and it"s really the interplay between them that makes meaning. : a system comprised of vocabulary and rules of grammar that allow us to. : words, or the vocabulary that make up a language: verbal symbols form the building blocks of interpersonal communication. Verbal symbols are important to a language system, but they must be accompanied by.
