Purposive Communication Lecture Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering core definitions, communication models, types of noise, ethics, and cultural concepts from the Purposive Communication lecture transcript.

Communicare

A Latin word meaning to share, to unite, or to have things in common.

Ivor Armstrong (I.A.) Richards

A pioneer of modern literary criticism who defined communication as the exchange of meanings and shared experiences using a common system of symbols.

Linear Model of Communication

A communication model developed by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver (West, 2018) through the use of radio and telephone technology that describes communication as a one-way process.

Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver

The developers of the linear model of communication based on radio and telephone technology.

Sender

In the communication process, the person who sends the message.

Semantic Noise

A type of noise in the communication process related to language.

Physical Noise

Sounds existing outside the receiver that disrupt communication.

Psychological Noise

An individual or group's prejudices, biases, and predispositions that impact communication.

Physiological Noise

Biological influences on the communication process.

Interactive Model of Communication

A model associated with Wilbur Schramm that describes communication as a two-way process allowing feedback from the receiver.

Wilbur Schramm

One of the fathers of the interactional model of communication who suggested the idea that communication is a two-way process.

Transactional Model of Communication

A model adapted from Barnlund (West, 2018) that shows that the process of sending and receiving messages is simultaneous and continuous.

Barnlund

The scholar from whose work the transactional model of communication was adapted.

Ethics in Communication

Practicing honesty, respectfulness, and responsibility to uphold one's personal values and a company's standards of ethical conduct.

Culture

The learned behavior of members of a given social group, including socially acquired traditions, lifestyles, thinking processes, feeling, and acting (Harris in Baran, 2015).

Global Village

A concept resulting from IT integrating telecommunications, computing, and the internet, where the world becomes a smaller place through the instantaneous flow of information.