SPC 1017

Influence - Answer the power of a person or a thing to affect others Motivation - Answer the stimulation or inducement that causes you to act -Treat audience with respect -Don't exaggerate or distort facts -Avoid lying or name calling -Avoid suppressing key information -If you have something to gain personally from your speech, tell the audience what it is - Answer Ethical Persuasion (5) Values - Answer ideas that we have about what is good and what is bad and how th...

Verbal Communication - Answer how words work Semantic Triangle - Answer - Indicates a direct relationship between symbols (words) and thoughts. - Referent, Thought, Symbol Referent - Answer the thing you're talking about Thought - Answer the part that ties the meaning of the word to the word itself Symbol - Answer the word/representation you come up with Denotative - Answer dictionary defintion Connotative - Answer feelings and associations we have abo...

Persuasion - Answer The process of trying to get others to change their attitudes or behavior. Occurs when communicator (sender)influences values, beliefs, and attitudes/behaviors of another person(receiver). -requires that sender, message, and receiver are all working together Influence - Answer The power of a person or thing to affect others Social Influence - Answer Occurs when a person's values beliefs and attitudes are changed because of the behavior or presence of a per...

Denotative meaning - Answer the dictionary definition of a word Connotative meaning - Answer the feelings or associations each individual has about a word Semantic triangle - Answer used to explain the relationship between symbols (words) and thoughts three parts of semantic triangle - Answer 1. symbol: first peak 2. thought:at second peak, the words we use to think about the symbol 3. referent: third, the image we create in our minds as a result of the symbol Ladder of...

We use small talk to connect us to others in an initial encounter. This is an example of the __________ function of language - Answer relational What is ultimately the function of language? - Answer to make meaning Andrew talks to his friends using abbreviated words and does not always use correct grammar, but when their professor joins their conversation, they all speak with more attention to proper grammar. This switch is an example of language having ____________ meaning - Answer ...

The __________ principle states that you should say what you know or believe to be true and not say what you know to be false. - Answer quality Interruptions, in contrast to back-channeling cues, are attempts to take over the role of the __________. - Answer speaker After listening to Porter talk on and on about how hard his communication theory class is, Pepper finds an opening in the conversation and says, "Porter, I have something to say." Pepper is using a __________ cue. -...