COM 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pathos
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Hard to define communication complex process: a systematic process in which people interact to create and interpret meanings, complicated and on-going process. It"s pervasive: necessary, essential in personal, academic and professional life. Requires two or more people (only one of which you control) Internal voice is not considered a second person: you control yourself, you have no control over the other or others, you have control over how others receive the message. Communication allows us to influence the world around us . Communication is: pervasive, amoral, necessary to advancing our life-agenda. )f the process of communication is going to continue whether we participate or not, it"s better that we become active participants. The word amoral is often misused: people use it when they really mean immoral. The process is neutral the people engaged in the process provide the morality, or lack of it. In the context of communication, amoral means ethically neutral: neither moral nor immoral.
