Encoding Messages

Question 1

All messages carry

Answer 1

• Content
• Relational information
• Affect ( refers to emotional expression)
  All messages always contain and emotional element.
• Control

Question 2

Nonverbal

Answer 2

All nonverbal comm is

• Communicative
• Ambiguous
• Determined (always a reason for it) because of ambiguity we don’t always know the determination.
• Rule Governed
• Metacommunicational
• Affective (communicates emotion)
• Believable
• Contextual
• Cultural (big version of context)

Other terms to know

Kinesics
Eye behavior
Haptics
Proxemics 
 - nonverbal immediacy
Paralanguage 
Chronemics
Artifacts