Vocabulary by: Danielle Fair

Intrapersonal Communication Communication with yourself.

Interpersonal Communication Communication between people who are dependent upon one another and have a shared history.

Communication Process 6 Stages 1.Idea Formulation: the sending party comes up with an idea they would like to see happen. 2.Encoding: process of changing the message that the sending party has into a message that can be sent. 3.Transmission: the message is sent through communication. 4.Receiving: the message is received. 5.Decoding:the message is decoded into the idea that the receiving party thinks the sending party was trying to convey. 6.Feeding back: the receiving party sends its own message back.

Sender The person who sends the first message.

Receiver The person who receives the message from the sender.

Noise Any kind of sound.

Feedback The return of a portion of the output of a process or system to the input.

Field of Experience Attitudes, lessons, perceptions,and value that an individual or a group brings to a situation or problem.

Encode To put something, such as a message, into code.

Decode To take something, such as a message, out of code.

Symbol Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.

Denotation A sign, symbol, or indication of something.

Connotation An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing.

Nonverbal Symbols Communication using hand motions, or attitude without words.

Kinesics The study of nonlinguistic bodily movements, such as gestures and facial expressions, as a systematic mode of communication.

Proxemics The study of spatial distances between individuals in different cultures and situations.

Paralanguage The use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings.

Fact Something undoubtedly true.

Inference When you predict what will happen.

Logical Facilly A fallacy in logical argumentation.