COM 10200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ideal Speech Situation, Discourse Ethics, Goal Setting
4 Nov 2017
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Com review exam 3 1: the accepted wisdom of the field about the two functions communication needs to address in any group (also extended by prof. sparks in lecture to interpersonal communication) (see intro section to group communication) Task function: moves the group along towards its goal: people that are the pistons that drive the group machine. Used the first trout island experience: the significance of hirokawa"s paper entitled, to err is human, to correct for it. Functional oriented interaction-coding system, a tool to record and classify the function of statements during a groups discussion. Jurgen habermas vision of the ideal speech situation in which diverse participants could rationally reach a consensus on universal ethical standards: the comments in the critique section of the functional perspective on group. Too much focus on rational talk may be the reason researchers get mixed results when testing predictions.
