COMN 3112 Study Guide - Final Guide: Interpersonal Communication, Cultural Learning, Juggling
11 Jan 2019
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Interpersonal communication: process of continuously offering definitions of ourselves to others and responding to the definitions that others provide of themselves. Your responses in the conversation are your face . We continually react to people according to our existing face (tendency) Meaning is simultaneously created with contributions by all parties in a conversation. Juggling model: each person is dealing with 3 separate people when in a conversation: 1. What person a thinks of himself: 2. What person a thinks of person b: 3. What person a thinks person b thinks of him. Environment in which the communication takes place. Influences content and form of communication: hierarchy of authority, differences in occupation and social status. 2b ip communication axioms and cultural learning. First six axioms about process: all of these factors operate every time we interact. Seventh axiom is about the pragmatics of communication: the effects of communication on others, why do we say the things we do at certain times.
