CSD-September 3, 2009-Chapter 2
Defining Culture and Communication:
Inseperability:
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Transmission modes: one-way (listening), top-down (speakers to
listeners), instrumental function (trying to inform, persuade)—rhetorical
purposes
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Culture cannot be known without a study of COMMUNICATION
Aristotelian Description of Communication:
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A means of transmitting ideas/information
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Instrumental function
-Top-dowm
-One-way
-Means to an end
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A speaker, a speech act, an audience, and a PURPOSE
Communication Components: (a web)
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Noise
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Source, Message, Channel, Receiver, Decoding
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Feedback
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NO COMMUNICATION TAKES PLACE WITHOUT CONTEXT
Noise:
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External
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Internal
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Semantic
Components of Communication:
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Source: the person with an idea that he or she wants to communicate
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Encoding: putting thoughts into symbols (ex: words, graphics)
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Message: idea put across
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Channel: the medium through which the message is transmitted
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Receiver: person who attends to the message
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Decoding: meaning assigned to the message by the receiver
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Feedback: receiver response to the message
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Context
: the environment in which communication takes place. Context
helps define the communication. Relationships between people constrain
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- Fall '09
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- Intercultural Communication Ethics, COMMUNICATION Aristotelian Description, PURPOSE Communication Components
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