Mid-term - COM 412 - Advanced Interpersonal Communication

Answer five of the following eight questions:

1. What key elements of interpersonal communication are missing from Shannon's model of the communication process: . Why does each missing element matter? For each missing element, which alternative model, if any, includes it?
2. Describe three interpersonal communication media? How do they differ? What makes them interpersonal? How can they function together to form an interpersonal media ecology?
3. Describe the difference between chronemics, proxemics, kinesics, vocalics, and haptics. To what extent does each matter to face-to-face communication, telephone conversation, and instant messenger?
4. Describe the various ways in which we shape language, and in which language shapes us. Use three dialectics of language in your answer.
5. What is the relationship of roles, scripts, and rituals to negotiated rules. To what extent does each apply to professional relationships? Why? To what extent does each apply to Interpersonal relationships? Why?
6. How do family, gender, generational, religious, and organizational cultures affect us as children, as college students, as parents, and as professionals?
7. What does the equation , where R is a relationship, MU are the media used, and MI is the interactive intensity of each medium, tell us about our use of interpersonal media and our relationships?
8. Compare the stages of friendship and relational growth. How are the similar? Where do they differ? To what extent do these stages apply to parent-child relationships, sibling relationships, and professional relationships?