Interpersonal communication

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Interpersonal communication

• Chapter 7

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Interpersonal Comm.

• Simultaneous communication between two people,
  for the purpose of managing relationships
• Examples friends, family, significant others
• Characterized by
• Quality
• Mutual influence
• Manages relationships

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Impersonal comm.

• Communication that treats people like objects or
  responds to their roles rather than who they are
  as unique individuals
• Examples
• Store clerks
• Restaurant employees
• Clients

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Relationships

• Ongoing connections we make with people through
  interpersonal communication
• Relationships of circumstance
• Relationships of choice

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Acquaintances
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Friends
7
Family
8
Romantic partners