Erin Lovejoy Flashcards
Communication
The collaborative construction and negotiation of meaning between self and others as it occurs within cultural context
Communication as Representation
Words represent things that the words we speak are a translation of our thoughts or a stand in for objects in the world
Communication as Constitutive
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
Construction
The act of making by putting pieces together to build our social lives through communication
Critical Inquiry
Asking complicated questions and sorting out the implications of our actions (or inactions)
Critical Paradigms
world views or ways of seeing
Critical Perspective
The idea that we question and engage what we experience, never taking it for granted
Culture
A system of shared meanings and assumptions that draw people together within a social context of shared power
Cultural Location
Identities that provide a way of seeing oneself within social categories in relation to each other
System of Meaning
A collective set of assumptions or expectations
Public Advocacy
Engaging the public through thoughtful and responsible communication that aims for a better community/world
Stage Model
Moving from conversation to drafting aloud to writing to practice and including presentation
Recursive
Suggests that in generating a speech you will bounce back and fourth across different stages
Power
A productive tension resulting from our different locations with culture
Informed Choice
Knowledge that there are choices present in any given moment
Idiosyncratic
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
Thesis
An integral component to successful communication this is the claim of a message
Critical/ Cultural turn in Communication
An effort in Communication research that involves incorporating culture and working for social justice
Ethos
Character of the speaker in the speech as spoken
Intersubjective
The way we as subjects create meanings together in interaction
Logos
Word, reason, argument, speech, language
Pathos
Passions of the audience
Rhetoric
“Uncovering, in any given case, the available means of persuasion.”
Social Constructionism
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
Sophists
First teachers of public speaking
History of Communication
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
Interpersonal Communications
An exchange or interaction that occurs between people who are in an interdependent relationship
Social Science
Trend in communication research values micro-analytic studies of communication, breaking communication into its parts to understand what happens when we communicate
Voice
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
Ad Hominem Attacks
A common fallacy in argumentation that means to question the person rather than their ideas
Counterargument
The reasons a listener or reader may have for disagreeing with a given message
Critical Thinking
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
Deductive Reasoning
A form of argument that begins with sharing our conclusion, then providing evidence that supports it
Dialogic Communication
An ethic of engagement with others that seeks to communicate with, not on or for some audience
Hegemony
Process of granting a group with more power and privilege the ability to shape our world views, attitudes, beliefs, expectations, and actions
Inductive Reasoning
A form of argument that begins with sharing our evidence and then reaching a conclusion
Logical Fallacy
Errors in reasoning; mistakes in structuring an argument so it is no longer sound and trustworthy
Praxis
Principle in communication reminds communicators that our language in part, shapes and defines our realities
Privilege
Unearned advantages resulting from social or structural inequalities
Problem-Posing Approach
An approach to communication that draws out learning, as an alternative to a more limited, banking approach
Public Advocacy
Engaging the public through careful, reflective, thoughtful, and responsible communication toward an end that seeks a better world for our communities and families
Red Herring Fallacy
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
Reflexivity
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
Slippery Slope Reasoning
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
Straw Person Arguments
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
