COM 225 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Olfaction, Morpheme, Organizational Communication
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Understand process involved in act of communication. Learn to metacommunicate communicating about communication. Improve ability to deal with other people importance of definitions. Creates boundaries and focus attention our definition of communication and its important components (and what each means) Communication is the process whereby humans collectively create and regulate social reality communication as a process, uniquely human, collective, creative, regulatory. Process: is moving, it has no beginning and no end, and is constantly changing. To understand com we have to look at how what we do and say is connected to what others do and say. Uniquely human: only humans use language naturally and spontaneously, giving us flexibility and creativity denied to other animals. Collective: com can only occur when people enter into relationships with one another, when they share meaning, collectively. Creative: many things we talk about don"t objectively exist. Regulatory: com is a tool accomplish. Assign task, understanding, teach, persuade other issues in definitions of communication.
