Purposive Communication Week 1 Flashcards
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Communication is from the Latin expression ___ meaning to share or to make common.
communicare
The communication that occurs within one’s own mind.
Intrapersonal Communication
The process of using messages to generate meaning between two or more persons in a situation.
Interpersonal Communication
A communication between two persons.
Dyadic Communication
The process of generating meaning using messages within a small group of communicators.
Small-group communication
The process where a single source utilizes messages that then transmits these messages to a number of receivers at once.
Public communication
A process of communicating messages in order to generate meaning through a mediated system.
Mass communication
Type of communication that uses meaningful words or language
Verbal Communication
A pair or group of words that are habitually used together that they sound correct together.
Collocations
Combinations of words whose collective meaning is not predictable from those of the individual words.
Idioms
Verbs followed by a preposition or an adverb
Phrasal verbs
Group of words that provide a structure or a skeleton for complete sentence.
Sentence frames
The sending of information or messages aside from the use of language.
Nonverbal Communication
Codes of symbols which carries a meaning on its own and is not in the form of spoken or written words.
Nonverbal Codes
The message transmitted by your bodily movements which includes facial expressions, posture and gestures.
Kinesics
Nonverbal actions or movements that is used as a replacement for words or phrases
Emblems
The bodily movements done accompanying a spoken message in order to reinforce it.
Illustrators
A significant nonverbal attribute, sometimes the media alters realistic views of a physically attractive person.
Physical Attraction
The study of distance and space as proposed by Edward T Hall.
Proxemics
Generally used by people who are close to you, this distance extends from you to eighteen inches outward.
Intimate distance
ranges from 18 inches to 4 feet, it is used for conversation and other non-intimate exchanges.
Personal distance
Used in less personal or formal business situations. It ranges from four to 12 feet distance.
Social distance
Commonly done in public speaking settings such as at churches or lecture halls. It exceeds twelve feet distance.
Public distance
The manner of organizing and using time and the messages that are constructed due to the organization and use of it, this is also called as temporal communication.
Chronemics
