Ch' 6: Verbal Communication

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Ch. 6 Verbal Communication

• COM 4480 Communication Theory
• February 21, 2006

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Chapter 6 Verbal Approaches

• Communication and Symbols
• Remember that communication is symbolic.
• Why are we going back over this?
• Symptom
• Symbol
• Connotative vs. Denotative meaning

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Chapter 6 Verbal Approaches

• Communication and Symbols
• Language and Power
• Language can reflect our social power.

• Tentative Speech

• Assertive Speech

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Chapter 6 Verbal Approaches

• Gender and Verbal Behavior
• Gender-as-culture hypothesis (Maltz Borker)

• Males use speech to

• Females use speech to

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Chapter 6 Verbal Approaches

• Communication Accommodation Theory
• Giles and Wiemann
• Two principles
• We do this in order to...

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Chapter 6 Verbal Approaches

• Communication Accommodation Theory
• When will we do what?

• Convergent Speech

• Divergent Speech