Exam 1: An Overview of Everyday Communication

Assumptions that affect the interpretation of a message can include ideas about:

Cultural assumptions about communication can include:

Messages cannot be fully understood without knowing:

A communicative 'frame' provides context to help us interpret a message.

One advantage of social framing in communication is that:

The perspective that 'communication is action' is limited because:

When people from different cultures interact in one place, the use of symbols is more likely to be:

Communication is presentational because it is:

Explain why it can be problematic to interpret a symbol correctly in a communicated message.

Relationships affect communication by:

Communication is interpreted at both the content and the relational level.

Explain the main difference between "communication as action" and "communication as interaction."

The perspective that 'communication is interaction' is limited because:

In order for people to communicate successfully, they must have:

Communication is simply the literal translation of a message.