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CMN 010v EXAM QUESTIONS AND 100%CORRECT ANSWERS
What is communication?
The exchanging of information, thoughts, ideas and feelings
Examples of communication
Complementing someone, blushing, giving someone a present
Communication channels
All three (hand, voice, and eyes) may be used to communicate
Pyramid of communication levels- in order from highest to lowest
Societal, institutional, group, interpersonal, intrapersonal
Communication model 1B
Communicating is understood as sending and receiving communication
does communicating require intent?
no, example: going to a coffee shop, looking for brownies behind the counter, and looks
given communicate with person behind the counter
Can a person not communicate?
no, example: riding the bus without interacting and staying at home still sends a
message to others
Theory definition
a statement about reality that attempts to explain or predict relationships
Examples of theories: gravity and evolution by natural selection
Gravity explains the attraction between physical bodies while evolution theory explains
changes in traits over generations
Communication theories goals
,To predict communication, to predict consequences, to explain how communication
works
Models in communication
Visual representations of theorized relationships. May be general or specific
How theories are developed
Evidence, observation, surveys, experiments and variation of theory
Transmission model (Laswell)
Sender --> Message --> Channel --> Receiver --> Effect
Transmission model (Shannon & Weaver)
sender, message, channel, receiver, effect with the possibility of noise interrupting the
flow of communication
Basic SMCR Model (Berlow)
sender (encodes) --> message --> channel --> receiver (decodes), showing how meaning
is shared and the loop of feedback
Simple Definition of Communication
the process by which communication is sent or received using either verbal or
non-verbal means
Reception and Audience Theories
emphasizes the receivers' perception and meaning making of messages within their
individual experience, thoughts and values
, messages are polysemic (more meanings)
example: insults have more meanings supplied by recipients
Stuart Hall's Theory of Encoding and Decoding
fourth stages of production, circulation, use, reproduction with dominant, negotiated,
and oppositional decoding
language use defined
language use as a system of signs utilized in the transportation of meaning, including
agreed-upon signs, semantics, and syntax
speech acts
utterances with a performative function, identified through pragmatics
indirectness and implicature
literal language and implicature how implicature is conveyed through more than the
literal words by speaker and recipient values and social context
Figurative Language:
Writing or speech that isn't intended to be taken literally and is usually created to bring
imaginative and colorful impressions. It includes examples of metaphors, hyperboles,
and idioms, where meaning comes from knowledge and understandingníka
Language Attitudes
impression formation thru speaker's use of language, based on status n solidarity,
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