CMST 1061 : CMST 1061 Notes Test 1
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-features of communciation: ongoing-cant turn it off, create messages and responding to messages fitting in bohemial architecte failing, how you adapt to a situation- guy chose not to adapt and he failed. -visible acts of commucation: people, symbols, technology. -invisible acts of communication: meaning, subjectivity, learning. -way/modes: visually -dress,act,gestures,what we see, tactile or touch- how we touch-innapropritate and approp, smell and taste- (olfactory and gustatory, auditory- hearing or sound- intro to rhetoric. Plato: hated sophists. believed rhetoric should not be used for profit, saw it as a tool for spreading truth and beauty (his own ideas of truth and beauty) believed average person could not understand ideal knowledge. Aristotle: student of plato saw value in what sophists were doinglooked at what plato and sophists were doing and came up with idea of social truth. Truth: (according to aristotle) two types: truth of science-things that can be proven- melting temperate, social truths- cultural values, situation, context.
