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CMST EXAM 1 Study GuideHistoriography - correct answer ✔✔The study of the persuasive effect of writing history in particular
ways and the reasons whey particular reports and analyzes are offered by specific authors
3 Major Areas of Communication Discipline - correct answer ✔✔1. Rhetorical Criticism (enable to
describe, interpret, and evaluate language) (ex. speeches)
2. Interpersonal Communication (interact with others) (ex. interaction rituals)
3. Mass Communication (mass media) (ex. book, magazine, tv)
3 Approaches to Study of Comm (SIC) - correct answer ✔✔1. Social Scientific (Predicability) (ex. world
predicable and reality exsists)
2. Interpretivist (Subjectivity) (ex. world unpredictable and 1 realty)
3. Critical (Suspicion) (ex. find practices that create oppression of some groups)
Social Scientific Approach - correct answer ✔✔View the world as objective, casual, and predictable
Interpretivist Approach - correct answer ✔✔Views communication as creative, uncertain, and
unpredictable, and thus rejects the idea that a single reality exists or can be discovered
Critical Approach - correct answer ✔✔Seeks to identify the hidden but formidable symbolic structures
and practices that create or uphold disadvantage, inequity, or oppression of some groups in favor of
others
Communication - correct answer ✔✔The transactional use of symbols, influenced, guided, and
understood in the context of relationships
7 Characteristics of Communication - correct answer ✔✔Communication is
1. Symbolic
2. Requires meaning
, 3. Cultural
4. Relational
5. Involves frames
6. Presentational and Representational
7. Transaction
Symbol - correct answer ✔✔Arbitrary representations of ideas, objects, people, relationship, cultures,
genders, races, etc.
(ex. stop sign - meaning has been given to the object and the words) (ex. word chair chosen to represent
thing we sit on)
Signs - correct answer ✔✔A consequence or an indicator of something specific, which cannot be
changed by arbitrary actions or labels
(ex. smoke a sign of fire) (ex. wet street sign of rain)
Meaning - correct answer ✔✔What a symbol represents
Social Construction - correct answer ✔✔The way in which symbols take on meaning in a social context or
society as they are used over time (ex. family may use words that have a shared meaning)
Context and Meaning Types - correct answer ✔✔1. Physical context - actual location where a symbol is
used (ex. say "there is a fire" at campfire vs. movie theater)
2. Relational context - relationship shared by people (ex. meanings differ with parents vs. friends)
3. Situational context - situation in (ex. say "i love you" at wedding vs. a first date)
Medium - correct answer ✔✔Means though which a message is conveyed (ex. person to person) (ex. e-
mail, text, cell phone)
Frames - correct answer ✔✔Basic forms of knowledge that provide a definition of a scenario, either
because both agree on the nature of the situation or because cultural assumptions built into interactions
and the previous relational context of talk give them a clue (ex. at a restaurant, frame for interacting with
waitress) (ex. frame of job interview - understand you will be asked questions)
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