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Comm 105 Final
Chapter 1 & 2
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Communication
Undergraduate 1
12/04/2012

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Term
Content Level of Meaning
Definition
- One of 2 levels of meaning
- The literal information in a message
- What is expressed through a message
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Relationship Level Of Meaning
Definition
- One of the 2 levels of meaning
- Expresses the relationship between communicators
- The communicators' relationship
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Feedback
Definition
- Verbal or non-verbal response to a message
- The response you give someone, or that they give you, after a message is presented. This can be either verbal or non-verbal.
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Interactive model
Definition
A message is recieved, the message is then decoded, feedback is then presented to the initial message sender, and the process starts all over again.
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Linear model
Definition
Communication is transmitted straight forward from a sender to a reciever. This can be interupted by "noise"
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Noise
Definition
Anything that interferes with the meaning of a message. This can distort the understanding of the message
*Lawn mower in the background
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Defenition of communication
Definition
- A systemic process in which people interact with and through symbols to create and interpret meanings
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Transactional Model
Definition
- basically saying that all people both communicate and recieve messages with and through symbols over time to create meaning
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Logos
Definition
-Proof based on logic and reasoning
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Ethos
Definition
- Proof based on a persons credibility
( If the person is goodwilled, kind, expertise, ect.)
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Pathos
Definition
- Proof that will appeal to a listeners' emotions
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Quantative Research Methods
Definition
getting info in numerical form
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Qualitative Research Methods
Definition
- Textual analyisis: interpretation of symbolic activities
- Ethnography: doing symbolic activities to know what it feels like
- historical research: knowledge of past (people, events, and activities)
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Critical Research Methods
Definition
Identifying and challenging practices that opress, marginalize, or harm individual or social groups
*aims to change society
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Orginizational Culture
Definition
understandings about an organizations identity and codes of thought and action of members of an organization share
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Triangulation
Definition
- Involves studying phenomena from mutliple points of view.
- Using sources with different points of view about subject
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