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Purposive Communication in English Flashcards

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Non-verbal cues (facial expressions, gestures, postures)

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Body Language

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A variation in the pitch of the voice while speaking

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Tone

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The creative use of more than two communication models to deliver meaning

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Multimodal

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An essay which thoroughly if not meticulously examines a literary piece to arrive at a critical understanding of the message, a clear interpretation of its meanings, and a scholarly appreciation of the writer’s techniques

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Literary Analysis

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A speech that gives information that clarifies or gives ideas on a certain topic either through descriptions, characteristics, or processes

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Informative Speech

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A form of communication that attempts to persuade or influence people’s beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivations, or behaviors in relation to an event, idea, object, or other persons

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Persuasive Speech

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A verbal exchange of question and answer between two or more persons

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Interview

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A literary work in the form of letters

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Epistolary

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Takes place when people from two different cultural groups interact. Its purpose is to exchange ideas and cultural norms in the spirit of understanding and mutual respect

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Intercultural Communication

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The tendency or diposition to judge other people’s culture with disfavor and to consider one’s own as being superior to the other

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Ethnocentrism

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Instructional methods which involves students expressing their opinions from two competing perspectives with the goal of contradicting each other’s arguments

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Debates

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Labels things or directs for the maintenance of a building or any infrastructure

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Infrastractural Signs

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The process by which the sender, having the assigned codes to come up with thoughts symbols (message) that are also comprehensible by the participant/s or the communication, transmits, or sends messages to its recipient

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Transmission

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A large pad of paper bound so that each page can be turned over at the top to reveal the next, used on a stand at presentations

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Flip Charts

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A software package designed to create electronic presentations consisting of a series of separate pages or slides

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PowerPoint

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A free blended learning platform developed by Google for educational institutions that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments. It’s primary purpose is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students

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Google Classroom

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A new language which develops in situations where speakers of different languages need to communicate but do not share a common language

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Pidgin

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A type of register that is used in professional, academic, or legal settings where communication is expected to be respectful, uninterrupted, and restrained to specific rules

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Formal Register

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A type of register that is conversational and appropriate when writing to friends and people you know very well

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Informal Register (casual or intimate)

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Describes the way a person speaks in relation to their audience

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Language Register (linguistic register or speech register)

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The “medium” of communication. The means used to exchange or transmit the message

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Channel

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The study of meaning in language

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Semantics

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Communication with one’s self, which may include self-talk, acts of imagination, visualization, and even recall and memory

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Intrapersonal Communication

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A type of communication that uses visuals to convey information and/or messages

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Visual Communication

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Citizens of the virtual world

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Netizens

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The primary language of the majority population of a country

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Native language

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The Father of Debate

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Protagoras

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The Father of Classical Communication

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Aristotle

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Means checking the final copy to see that it is free from typographical error

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Proofreading

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The “wrongful appropriation” and “stealing and publication” of another author’s “language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions” and the representation of them as one’s own original work

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Plagiarism

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The study of making meaning, the connection between a sign or symbol

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Semiotics

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Refers to the world. Emphasizes that all different parts of the world form one community linked together by electronic communications especially the internet

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Global Village

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The process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and of governments worldwide

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Globalization

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Refers to historic language that is intended to remain unchanged (examples: Panatang Makabayan, Philippine Constitution, Holy Bible)

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Frozen Register

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A process of exchanging facts, ideas, and opinions as a means that individuals or organizations share meaning and understanding with one another

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Communication

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Work to develop confidence and effectiveness in their public speaking, interpersonal, and small group communication skills

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Speech Communication

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Shows listeners how some process is accomplished or how to perform it themselves

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Demonstration Speech

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Its purpose is to provide a detailed, vivid picture of a person, animal, place, or object

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Descriptive Speech

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Focuses on reports of current and historical events, customs, transformations, interventions, policies, outcomes, options

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Explanatory Speech

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A literary technique that writers use to present their ideas through reason and logic, in order to influence the audience

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Persuasion

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A speech given in honor of someone who has died

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Eulogy

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Speech delivery that involves reading your speech word-for-word from its written form

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Manuscript Speaking

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The study of the use of space and distance

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Proxemics

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Refers to the use of objects, clothes, or accessories to aid communication

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Object Language

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The speacialized terminology associated with a particular field or area of activity

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Jargon

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The formation of clear and distict sounds in speech

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Articulation

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The practical use of the language

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Pragmatics

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The lanuage that is common to people regardless of age, social class, gender, or race

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Vernacular

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Used in conversation when they are speaking with someone who has specialized knowledge or who is offering advice

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Consultative Register

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A speech delivered with some prepared structure, such as notes or an outline, but is otherwise delivered off-the-cut

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Extemporaneous Speech

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Is not a language that is not distinct from a national language, but rather a variety of a language spoken in a particular area of a country

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Regional Dialect

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The regionally distinct varieties of English that have arisen in parts of the world where there is a long and often colonial history of English being used in education, commerce, and government (Celce-Murcia, 2014)

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World Englishes

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A group of internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations allowing the creation and exchange of user-generated content (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010).

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Social Media

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Type of speech that focuses on the things that happened, are happening, or will happen

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Speeches about events

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Type of speech that shows how some process is accomplished or how to perform it themselves

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Demonstrational Speech

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A system of pairing sounds with a certain meaning, a code, and has a certain rule

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Phonology

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The process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language as well as to produce and use words

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Language Acquisition

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The process by which the receiver interprets the symbols used by the source of the message by converting them into concepts and ideas

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Decoding

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The information flows from one person to the next person in the network

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Single Strand Communication

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Under this communication pattern the information passess randomly from persons to persons

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Probability Chain

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There is an individual who, acts as a source of a message, transmits information to the pre-selected group of individuals out ot whom few individuals again tell the same message to other selected groups of individuals

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Cluster Chain

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Group conversation where everyone is talking to each other informally

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Gossip Chain

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Inner Circle :

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Native Language

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Expanding Circle :

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Foreign Language

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The Seven C’s of Comunication (definiton)

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A list of principles for written and spoken communcations to ensure that they are effective

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The Seven C’s of Communication (enumerate)

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  1. Clarify
  2. Correctness
  3. Conciseness
  4. Courtesy
  5. Concreteness
  6. Consideration
  7. Completeness
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Formal and technical language of legal documents that is often hard to understand

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Legalese

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Refers to the kind of language whose forms are definable social situations

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Register

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The process which employees directly communicate with upper management to provide feedback, share ideas, and raise concerns regarding their day-to-day work

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Upward Communication

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Refers to manuals and policy statements

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Downward Communication

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An example is a certain look or glance

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Non-verbal Communication

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The individual or group that develops the message to be communicated to internal and external parties

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Encoder

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Things that you can actually see that do not necessarily need words to express a thought (examples: street names, billboards, and signages)

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Linguistic Landscape

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A mode of analyzing signs in which various elements used at a particular sign have meaning and elements symbolic in the message they want to convey

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Geosemiotics

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A kind of sign that indicates authority that may be official or legal prohibitions

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Regulatory Signs

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Advertises or promotes a product, an event, or a service in commerce

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Commercial Signs

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An interference that bans the message from being understood or interpreted

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Noise

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“Mother of all Models”

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Shannon-Weave’s Model of Communication

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Pertains to the setting or situation in which communication takes place

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Context

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The most appropriate communicatin channel if the message requires the receiver to take time to think about the response

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Email

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This model describes an act of communication by defining who said it, what was said, in what channel it was said, to whom it was said, and with what effect it was said

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Lasswell’s Communication Model

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In Lasswell’s Model, this refers to media analysis

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“In Which Channel”

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A communication model which can be best used to develop public speaking skills or to create propoganda

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Aristotle’s Linear Model

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A communication model which emphasizes a multi-layered feedback system for all parties involved and recognizes that anyone can be a sender and receiver at the same time

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Barnlund’s Transactional Model

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A communication model which disagrees with the concept linearity and circularity individually, and introduces the concept of time and continuous communication process

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Dance’s Helical Model

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A communication model that argues that human communication can be broken down into 6 key concepts: sender, encoder. channel, noise, decoder, and receiver

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Shannon and Weaver’s Transmission Model “Mathematical Theory of Communication”

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This model suggests that information is of no use unless and until it is carefully put into words and conveyed to others

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Schramm’s Interactive Model

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A process of transferring communication to large audiences using verbal and written media

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Mass Communication

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The strength of Barlund’s Transactional Model

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Shared field of experience

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Deals with the exchange of ideas and messages taking place both ways from sender to receiver and vice-versa

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Interactive Model

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The sixth element, the dysfunctional factor, included in Shannon and Weaver’s Transmission Model

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Noise

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When is written communicatin used?

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When the audience is located at a distance or when it is needed to keep a permanent record for future reference if a problem does arise

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A form of non-verbal interaction involving touch

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Haptics

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The category of nonverbal communication that explains that the distance between communications gives meaning while standing too far away or too close can affect the effectiveness of a verbal communication

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Proxemics

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These are effective when immediate feedback is necessary becuase any uncertainties can be cleared up on the spot

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Oral Communication Channels

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The practice of sharing information between employees, departments, and units within the same level of an organization

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Horizontal Communication (lateral communication)

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Over-complicated, unfamiliar and/or technical terms that are a common barrier to effective communication

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“The use of jargon”

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Students can freely interact in the class if there is …

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Democratic atmosphere

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Can be defined as the motor of communication that involves understanding and utterance in verbal form

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Speech

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A communicatin model that represents the process of communication in its simplest form

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David Berlo’s SMCR Model of Communication

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The acronym SMCR in David Berlo’s SMCR Model of Communication stands for

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S - Sender
M - Message
C - Channel
R - Receiver

102
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A static over a phone line, misinterpreting a local custom, and language differences are examples of…

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Feedback

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Three Characteristics of an Ethical Communicator

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Egalitarian
Respectful
Trustworthy

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Refers to printed messages such as memos, proposals, emails, letters, training manuals, operating policies, etc. They may be printed on paper, handwritten, or appear on screen

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Written Communication

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The response that is given after the message has been successfully transmitted, received, and understood. It indicates comprehension and can be done through written or verbal response or in a form of action

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Feedback

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The study of the way in which certain body movements and gestures serve as a form of nonverbal communication

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Kinesics

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A kind of noise that refers to things like hunger, fatigue, headache, stress, or anything that prevents you from giving your full attention to someone sharing his thoughts

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Physiological Noise

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A mental operation involving processing sound waves, interpreting their meaning, and storing their meaning in memory

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Listening

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A process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation

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Reading

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The Four Macro Skills of Communication

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Listening
Talking/Speaking
Reading
Writing

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A type of noise that occurs when the communicator finds a hard time sympathetically understanding the words, language, dialects, vernaculars, or even grammatical structure of the message

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Semantic Noise

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Divided into three basic components: a sender, a channel, and a receiver

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Communication process

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The person who finalizes the communication process by interpreting and assigning meaning to the message

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Receiver

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A learning disability in which people have difficulty learning to read

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Dyslexia

115
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The way in which words are put together

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Syntax

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A vey useful tool for business conferences which specializes in video chatting and voice calliing through tablets, phones, computers, and smart watches using the internet

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Skype

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A type of speech that you are asked to deliver with little or no preparation

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Impromptu Speech

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This becomes a barrier to effective communication when a person has different language bearing, and they have different interpretations to such words

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Culture

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Refers to data or facts, is shared every time a sender communicates something to another person

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Information

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High Context :

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Collectivism

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Low Context :

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Individualism

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The channel through which one expresses his/her communication intent

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Communication Mode

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