COMN 2111 Lecture Notes - Connotation, Fuck, Denotation
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Communication in everyday life lecture october 1st, 2013. We talk because we need to know. To meet this need we must create shared meanings with others: trying to find some common understanding of what"s really going on, who they are, and what"s going to happen next. Ip communication is a process: it is an interweaved process or flow. Whereby 2 or more people within a particular context. Who are aware of each other: need to notice the other person, or know that they are there. To act together to create, sustain and manage meanings. Through the sending and receiving of messages. Using both socially shared verbal symbols and biologically shared non- verbal symptoms and symbols. Culture is the ultimate context the context of all contexts. A way of life that is learned and shared by groups of human beings and taught by one generation to the next: like how children learn everything by watching.