CMST 2010 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Paralanguage, Kinesics, Proxemics
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Form the building blocks of interpersonal communication: grammar: the rules that dictate the structure of language, encoding: the process of putting our thoughts into meaningful language, decoding: the process of developing a thought based on hearing verbal symbols, observing nonverbal message, or both, 5 attributes of words, words are symbolic: Connotative meaning: the meaning of a verbal symbol that is derived from our personal and subjective experience with that symbol: example: someone who had a close friend shot to death would have a different connotative meaning for the word gun , but the same denotative meaning, words vary in level of abstraction. Process of abstraction: the ability to move up & down the ladder of abstraction from specific to general & vice versa: when referents are not obvious, we can visualize them through this process, example: i have to ability to vividly describe my new car or vaguely describe it.
