COMM 250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Stress Management, Semiotics, Interpersonal Attraction
22 Apr 2016
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Chapter one: thinking about communication: definitions, models, and ethics. Communication depends on out ability to understand one another. Primary and essential goal in communication: understanding. Defining communication: communication is a social process in which individuals employ symbols to establish and interpret meaning in their environment. Five key terms: social, process, symbol meaning, environment: communication is a social process. Social: the notion that people and interactions are part of the communication process, involves people and interactions, whether face-to- face or online, necessarily includes two people, who act as senders and receivers. Involves intentions, motivations, and abilities: communication is a process. Dynamic, complex, and continually changing, emphasizes the dynamics of making meaning, no definable beginning or ending. Individual and cultural changes affect communication: communication symbols. Symbol: an arbitrary label or representation of phenomena, words are symbols for concepts and things. Ex: love represents idea of love, chair represents what we sit on.
