COMN 2111

1. COMN 2111 DEFINITION OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE LECTURE 3a

2. INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION • WE TALK BECAUSE WE NEED TO KNOW • TO MEET THIS NEED WE MUST CREATE SHARED MEANINGS WITH OTHERS

3. DEFINING INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION • IP Communication is a process • whereby 2 or more people within a particular context • who are aware of each other • 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.

4. TWO KEY CONCEPTS • a particular CONTEXT • create, sustain and manage MEANINGS

5. THE CONTEXT OF CONTEXTS:CULTURE AND MEANING

6. CULTURE AS CONTEXT AND STORE OF MEANINGS • CULTURE IS THE ULTIMATE CONTEXT - THE CONTEXT OF ALL CONTEXTS • CULTURE STORES MEANINGS OF LIFE: • A WAY OF LIFE THAT IS LEARNED AND SHARED BY GROUPS OF HUMAN BEINGS AND TAUGHT BY ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT. • EVERY GROUP HAS CULTURE

7. CULTURE: SOCIETAL STORE OF MEANINGS • CULTURE CONSISTS OF: • KNOWLEDGE - HOW WORLD IS CONSTRUCTED AND WORKS (INCLUDING LANGUAGE) • VALUES - MOST IMPORTANT GOALS WORTH ACHIEVING • SYMBOLIC EXPRESSION - MEANS OF COMMUNICATION (INCLUDING LANGUAGE)

8. QUALITIES OF CULTURE • LEARNED FROM PREVIOUS GENERATIONS • BROADLY SHARED • BUT SUB-CULTURES WITHIN GENERAL CULTURE -DIFFER IN SOME RESPECTS • ADAPTIVE • FOCUS ON MEANINGS NOT THINGS