Erin Lovejoy

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Communication

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The collaborative construction and negotiation of meaning between self and others as it occurs within cultural context

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Communication as Representation

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Words represent things that the words we speak are a translation of our thoughts or a stand in for objects in the world

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Communication as Constitutive

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Communication helps create us and what we think of a our realities, suggesting that communication produces meaning, relationships, and ourselves and sustains all aspects of our lives

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Construction

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The act of making by putting pieces together to build our social lives through communication

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Critical Inquiry

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Asking complicated questions and sorting out the implications of our actions (or inactions)

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Critical Paradigms

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world views or ways of seeing

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Critical Perspective

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The idea that we question and engage what we experience, never taking it for granted

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Culture

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A system of shared meanings and assumptions that draw people together within a social context of shared power

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Cultural Location

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Identities that provide a way of seeing oneself within social categories in relation to each other

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System of Meaning

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A collective set of assumptions or expectations

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Public Advocacy

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Engaging the public through thoughtful and responsible communication that aims for a better community/world

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Stage Model

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Moving from conversation to drafting aloud to writing to practice and including presentation

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Recursive

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Suggests that in generating a speech you will bounce back and fourth across different stages

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Power

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A productive tension resulting from our different locations with culture

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Informed Choice

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Knowledge that there are choices present in any given moment

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Idiosyncratic

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The principle that in the process of generating public communication each persons manner of creating a speech or writing will be somewhat distinct or unique

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Thesis

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An integral component to successful communication this is the claim of a message

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Critical/ Cultural turn in Communication

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An effort in Communication research that involves incorporating culture and working for social justice

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Ethos

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Character of the speaker in the speech as spoken

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Intersubjective

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The way we as subjects create meanings together in interaction

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Logos

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Word, reason, argument, speech, language

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Pathos

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Passions of the audience

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Rhetoric

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“Uncovering, in any given case, the available means of persuasion.”

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Social Constructionism

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Suggets that our social reality emerges through our actions and that our world and the social rules we live by are the product of our verbal and nonverbal communication

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Sophists

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First teachers of public speaking

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History of Communication

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An attempt to capture what happened in the world of communication that brought us to the present moment, acknowledging that all histories are subjective, limited, and shaped by power

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Interpersonal Communications

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An exchange or interaction that occurs between people who are in an interdependent relationship

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Social Science

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Trend in communication research values micro-analytic studies of communication, breaking communication into its parts to understand what happens when we communicate

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Voice

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How a speaker shares ideas with a given group, shaped by how the speaker thinks they can impress those ideas most effectively on a particular audience

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Ad Hominem Attacks

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A common fallacy in argumentation that means to question the person rather than their ideas

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Counterargument

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The reasons a listener or reader may have for disagreeing with a given message

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Critical Thinking

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A two-step process of engaging with ideas including the effort to listen for limitations and inaccuracies while also working to dialogically build some new possible way of seeing or thinking

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Deductive Reasoning

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A form of argument that begins with sharing our conclusion, then providing evidence that supports it

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Dialogic Communication

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An ethic of engagement with others that seeks to communicate with, not on or for some audience

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Hegemony

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Process of granting a group with more power and privilege the ability to shape our world views, attitudes, beliefs, expectations, and actions

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Inductive Reasoning

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A form of argument that begins with sharing our evidence and then reaching a conclusion

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Logical Fallacy

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Errors in reasoning; mistakes in structuring an argument so it is no longer sound and trustworthy

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Praxis

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Principle in communication reminds communicators that our language in part, shapes and defines our realities

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Privilege

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Unearned advantages resulting from social or structural inequalities

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Problem-Posing Approach

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An approach to communication that draws out learning, as an alternative to a more limited, banking approach

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Public Advocacy

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Engaging the public through careful, reflective, thoughtful, and responsible communication toward an end that seeks a better world for our communities and families

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Red Herring Fallacy

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When a speaker or writer distracts distracts an audience from a flaw or misstep in argumentation by making an observation that is unrelated or irrelevant

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Reflexivity

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A back-and-forth process of thinking about how we act, why we act, what that means, who it enables, who it hurts, and so forth

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Slippery Slope Reasoning

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A common fallacy that suggests if one event happens, then a whole series of other, increasingly terrible events will ensue, even if we don’t know that forsure

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Straw Person Arguments

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A common fallacy in which a speaker sets up the counterargument to his or her claims in such a way that it is easy to challenge and refute