COMM 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Blue Moon, Linguistic Determinism, Linguistics

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1500
• Professor: All

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Verbal communication: the exchange of spoken or written language with others during an interaction. 9/26: naming, creating symbols to represent something, humans most profound and unique abilities, performing actions, speech acts are the actions we perform with language, managing relationships, verbal communication is the principal means through which we maintain ongoing relationships. Barriers to cooperative communication: communication apprehension: discomfort, fear, or anxiety (social anxiety or shyness) trait like. Situational: verbal aggression: attack people, not ideas/ positions, defensive communication: less than positive response, deception: deliberately misleading others. Equivocation: vague language, not answering the question. Chapter 8: nonverbal communication (nvc: (un)intentional transmission of meaning through non-spoken physical and behavioral cues, uses multiple channels auditory, visual and tactile, more ambiguous flexible, has fewer rules. Functions of nvc: expresses emotions, affect displays: behaviors that reveal actual/ fake emotions, conveys meanings, reiterating, contradicting, enhancing, replacing, spotlighting, present ourselves to others, helps manage interactions, defines relationships (ex: intimacy, dominance, submissiveness, three principles.