Communication and Relationship Theory: A Comprehensive Overview, Quizzes of Theories of Communication

Download Communication and Relationship Theory: A Comprehensive Overview and more Quizzes Theories of Communication in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Speech Act Theory DEFINITION 1 Speech act theory Words preform an action Utterance- streaming together words Propositnal- truth value Illocutionary- Intent of statement Perlocutionary- effect on the receiver JL Austin Interpretive TERM 2 Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) DEFINITION 2 Accommodation Theory Explain the ways in which interactants influence each other in the course of interaction. Accommodation refers to the ways in which individuals in interaction monitor and perhaps adjust their behavior during interaction. Howard Gills Postpositive and interpretive TERM 3 Expectancy Violation Theory (EVT) DEFINITION 3 Expectancy Violation Theory We all have expectations about what interaction should and will be like. These expectations include behaviors such as distance during interaction, speech,rate, volume, eye gaze, touching, and a host of others. Jody Burgoon Postpositive TERM 4 Social Penetration Theory (SPT) DEFINITION 4 Relational development is viewed as a process. - Orientation- individuals are cautious and tentative in their interaction, and these - Exploratory Affective Exchange- individuals begin to relax their guard a bit and share some information beyond the socially approved small talk. - Affective Exchange- many barriers have been broken down and a great deal of open exchange occurs. Stable Exchange- continued openness and richness in interaction. Alltman and Taylor Postpositive TERM 5 Uncertainty Reduction Theory (URT). DEFINITION 5 - People are driven by their desire to reduce uncertainty about each other. - Incentives- we will be more likely to want to reduce uncertainty about anindividual if we perceive that the individual can be rewarding to us. - Deviation- if people act in ways that violate the norms of interaction, it increases our desire to know what is going on with that individual. Berger Postpositive TERM 6 Relational Systems Theory, DEFINITION 6 Relational Systems Theory Behaviors of individuals in a system are interdependent with and are often the response to, the behaviors of others. Positive feedback leads to change or loss of stability in the system whereas negative feedback preserves the status quo of the system. The concept of equifinality proposes that the same final state can be achieved through many different developmental pathways. Gregory Bateson Interpreative TERM 7 Five axioms in Pragmatics of Human Communication DEFINITION 7 FIve Axioms 1. One canot not communicate 2. Distinctiions in communication types. 3. Punctuating communication Sequence. 4. Distinction in communication types. 5. Symmetryy and complementarity. Paul Wateramick janet Beu Interpretive TERM 8 Dialectics and list four central concepts of dialectics. DEFINITION 8 Central concepts Contradictions- conflict of Interpretation Totality- Contradictions can not be understood. Process- Change in relationship. Praxis- chooses we make TERM 9 Bakhtins theory of dialogics DEFINITION 9 Martin Bubers i- thou / i-it- you see the person as equal to you and you see the person as an object Original Theorists- Bahktin and Buber TERM 10 Unfinalizability DEFINITION 10 Unflinalizingabilty- relationships are never finished