Chapter 1

Question 1

What is the purpose and function of a definition?

Answer 1

To focus our attention, draw boundaries, and tell us what counts.

Question 2

What does “communication is relational”mean?

Answer 2

Meaning of communication is tied to our relationships with others.

Question 3

What is communication as action?

Answer 3

Sender sending messages, transfer of information from one outlet to another.

Question 4

What is communication as interaction?

Answer 4

Exchange of information between two people.

Question 5

What is communication as transaction?

Answer 5

the construction of shared meanings or understanding between two (or more) individuals.

Question 6

What are the 4 properties of effects of communication? and give an example for each.

Answer 6

Communication involves symbols
communication requires meaning
Communication is both representational and Presentational
Communication takes much for granted
COmmunication involves intentionality

Question 7

Define communication (book standards)

Answer 7

The transactional use of symbols, influenced, guided, and understood in the context of relationships, taken-for-granted understandings, meanings, and reality that is presents and creates as ways for people to share an understanding of the world that they inhabit together

Question 8

What does “communication is socially constructed” mean?

Answer 8

meaning is created through interaction

Question 9

What does “communication is constitutive” mean?

Answer 9

communication makes something happen

Question 10

Give an example of something that is a social construction of reality.

Answer 10

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Question 11

Content level of meaning

Answer 11

The meaning of an interaction at face value

Question 12

Social Frames

Answer 12

Situations that in ones culture can be recognized and people know how they are supposed to act or what they are supposed to do in the specific social frame. EX Restaurant

Question 13

How does understanding what a definition is help us to better understand communication and ultimately be better communicators?

Answer 13

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Question 14

What does it mean to say that all communication is relational?

Answer 14

The meaning of communication can differ based on the relationship between the people involved. Think two men out to a romantic dinner or two lovers.

Question 15

What does viewing commiunication as transactional allow us to do that other views of communication might not?

Answer 15

They don’t allow either party to gain from the communication or to build anything worth something.

Question 16

Communication is said to create “worlds” of meaning. Why is this plural- world instead of worlds?

Answer 16

Because different cultures have different assumptions that two people would need to understand to effectively communicate.

Question 17

What kinds of things do we take for granted in communication and why is this significant?

Answer 17

Communication builds in and assumes certain ways of looking at the world as preferred by your culture, your relationship partner, or yourself. Social Frames***** they help define rules of communication in certain settings without it being acknowledged.

Question 18

What is the role of intentionality in communication?

Answer 18

Taking meaning from another person message implies that the message was sent with intention… “I saw that look…. What look…?” Now she is mad

Question 19

Communication goes beyond

Answer 19

Communication steps out of thepresent and points somewhere else, referring to objects, people, or ideas not actually in the interaction. Ex the future, past, or relationship drawn from the imagination of the speaker and the audience.

Question 20

Shared Assumptions

Answer 20

Communication involves sharing viewpoints, vocabulary, and meaning, or it would not be possible for people to communicate as interaction or transaction.

Question 21

Symbol

Answer 21

object or idea whose meaning is more complicated than it looks (stars on miltary uniform)

Question 22

Sign

Answer 22

has a casual connection to something (weather vane) (when the ground is wet it rained)