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Overview of Communication
Axioms of Communication
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Meanings 
Requires
Tends
Cannot “not” communicate
Defined
Communication
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Info transfer
Person 
Using
Considered “successful” if
Basic Concepts
• Message • Meta-message • Meta-communication -
Linear Model
Interactional Model
NOISE
Sender &
Receiver
Communication
Receiver &
Sender
Field of
Experience
Field of
Experience
NOISE
Transactional Model
NOISE
Communication
Sender &
Receiver
Shared Field of
Experience
Field of
Experience
Receiver &
Sender
Field of
Experience
Communication
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Transactional/Interpersonal Model
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Feedback is
Behav. is
Comm
Relational comm unique
Defining Communication
Communication - Social process in which
individuals employ symbols to establish &
interpret meaning in their environment
Value of Comm Theory
• Improved
• Appreciation for richness of
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• Application to your
Begins 1900…
Contexts
environments where comm. takes place
– Backdrops for analyzing
• Seven Contexts
– Intrapersonal*
– Interpersonal
– Small Group
– Organizational
– Public/Rhetorical
– Mass
– Intercultural
Interpersonal Communication
• Relationships:
– beginning, maintenance, dissolution
– Sub-contexts: family, friendships, long-term
marriages, workplace, etc.
Small Group Communication
• Task groups (not friendship and family)
• Disagreement - what constitutes small
group?
• Foci - Networking & role behavior
Organizational Communication
• Clearly defined hierarchy?
Public Communication/Rhetoric
• Aristotle’s rhetoric
• Research shift:
textual  themes & issues
• Focus: Communication apprehension
Mass Communication
• Mass media (newspapers, radio, computers, TV, Internet)
• Context includes both channel & audience
• Mediated comm. – separate sphere?
Intercultural Communication
• Comm. b/w individuals with different
cultural backgrounds
• Differences can be at any level