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§ Personal success § Social success § Professional success CH 1: Foundations of Interpersonal Communication (slide 2) Copyright © 2013, 2009, 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Why Study Interpersonal Communication (IPC)

1. Interdependent individuals § Connected § Actions of one impacts the other 2. Inherently relational § Defines the relationship § Varies depending on the relationship CH 1: Foundations of Interpersonal Communication (slide 3) Copyright © 2013, 2009, 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Nature of IPC

3. Exists on a continuum Impersonal Interpersonal § Social role information § Social rules § Social messages § Personal information § Personal rules § Personal messages CH 1: Foundations of Interpersonal Communication (slide 4) Copyright © 2013, 2009, 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Nature of IPC (cont. )

4. Involves verbal and nonverbal messages 5. Takes place in varied forms § Face to face § Computer mediated § Synchronous – occur simultaneously, in “real time” § Asynchronous – do not occur in “real time” 6. Involves choices (choice points) CH 1: Foundations of Interpersonal Communication (slide 5) Copyright © 2013, 2009, 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved The Nature of IPC (cont. )

1. Source – receiver 2. Encoding – decoding 3. Messages § Metamessages § Feedforward § Feedback 4. Channels CH 1: Foundations of Interpersonal Communication (slide 6) Copyright © 2013, 2009, 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Elements of IPC

Copyright © 2013, 2009, 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Elements of IPC (cont. ) 5. Noise § § Physical Physiological Psychological Semantic CH 1: Foundations of Interpersonal Communication (slide 7)

6. Context § § Physical Temporal Social-psychological Cultural 7. Ethics CH 1: Foundations of Interpersonal Communication (slide 8) Copyright © 2013, 2009, 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Elements of IPC (cont. )

CH 1: Foundations of Interpersonal Communication (slide 9) Copyright © 2013, 2009, 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved

1. IPC is a transactional process § An ever-changing, circular process § Interdependent elements; each element affects the other 2. IPC is purposeful 3. IPC is ambiguous CH 1: Foundations of Interpersonal Communication (slide 10) Copyright © 2013, 2009, 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Principles of IPC

4. IP relationships may be symmetrical or complementary § Symmetrical – individuals mirror each other’s behaviors § Complementary – individuals engage in different or opposite behaviors CH 1: Foundations of Interpersonal Communication (slide 11) Copyright © 2013, 2009, 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Principles of IPC (cont. )

5. IPC refers to content and relationship 6. IPC is a series of punctuated events § We break down continuous interactions § No clear cut beginning or ending § What is stimulus and what is response? 7. IPC is inevitable, irreversible, unrepeatable CH 1: Foundations of Interpersonal Communication (slide 12) Copyright © 2013, 2009, 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved Principles of IPC (cont. )