The Nature of Interpersonal communicationLecture One

The beginning…

Interpersonal Communication is the VERBAL AND NONVERBAL interaction between two INTERDEPENDENT PEOPLE who are somehow RELATIONALLY CONNECTED

A DYAD is any TWO people Dyadic primacy

Dyadic coalition

Dyadic consciousness

Forms of Interpersonal Communication

Face to Face

Mediated by technology Asynchronous

Synchronous

Universals of Interpersonal Communication

A source and a receiver

Encoding and decoding

Messages (intentional and unintentional) Feedback and Feedforward

Channels

Noise Physical, Physiological, Psychological, Semantic

Contexts Physical, Temporal, Social-Psychological, Cultural

Five Purposes of Interpersonal Communication

To LEARN

To RELATE

To INFLUENCE

To PLAY

To HELP

Axioms of Interpersonal Communication

It is ambiguousIt is a series of punctuated eventsIt is inevitableIt is irreversibleIt is unrepeatable