Category: Communication strategies

What are the benefits of being a Sophisticated Speaker? Explain.

Advanced Interpersonal Communication w/ Biblical Perspective:

 Use the attached text at the sources/references

Griffin, E., Ledbetter, A., & Sparks, G. (2019). A first look at communication theory (10th ed.).

Griffin, E. (1987). Making friends and making them count.

For each of the situations below, think of a relational context and provide an example of each. You can use a real life situation/experience or one from a movie. (e.g. Erin Brockavich could be considered a cognitively simplistic person, and this was reflected in her primary goals method of communicating with others. As she became more cognitively complex, her communication patterns changed to more “person” centered, which helped make her more successful in her career and relations with others.)

-A cognitively simple person

-A cognitively complex person

-A message using Primary goals expression.

-A message using Procedural Records method

-A message using Person Centered Design Logic

-What are the benefits of being a Sophisticated Speaker? Explain.

**Your analysis should be one paragraph in length for each situation presented in addition to one paragraph addressing the final question.

Explain why you feel these make an effective interpersonal relationship rather than another rehash or definition of these theories.

Advanced Interpersonal Communication w/ Biblical Perspective: Final Paper

 Use the attached text as two of the six sources/references. Then use a minimum of four additional scholarly sources to support your answers.

Griffin, E., Ledbetter, A., & Sparks, G. (2019). A first look at communication theory (10th ed.)

Griffin, E. (1987). Making friends and making them count.

Taking all of the theories and ideas that have been learned in this course, answer the following question: “What makes an effective interpersonal relationship?”

In your paper you must include at least five (5) communication theories (Griffin, Ledbetter, & Sparks, 2019 **attached) covered in this course, at least three (3) communication axioms or ideas from (Griffin 1987 **attached), and examples from your own life or experiences as support for your answer to this question.

The purpose of this paper is to explain why you feel these make an effective interpersonal relationship rather than another rehash or definition of these theories.

Following are theories you may wish to include:

-Symbolic Interactionism (Mead): (symbols, meaning, language, thought, looking glass self, concept of self via the “I” and “Me”)

-Expectancy Violations Theory (Burgoon): (expectancy, violation valence, communicator reward valence, interaction position, reciprocity)

-Constructivism (Delia): (message production, primary goals plan, procedural record plan, person-centered messages, sophisticated speakers)

-Social Penetration Theory (Altman & Taylor): (onion-wedge model, self-disclosure, intimate, peripheral, penetration, depenetration, trust, risk)

-Uncertainty Reduction Theory (Berger): (anticipation of future interactions, incentive value, deviance, Axioms of uncertainty reduction, passive strategy, active strategy, interactive strategy, anxiety/uncertainty management, intercultural encounter, strangers, mindfulness)

-Relational Dialectics (Baxter & Montgomery): (connectedness, separateness, certainty, uncertainty, openness, closedness, inclusion, seclusion, conventional, uniqueness, revelation, concealment, denial, disorientation, spiraling alterations, segmentation, balance, integration, recalibration, reaffirmation)

-Interactional View (Watzlawick): (roles, rules, reframing, family systems)

-Social Judgment Theory (Sherif): (attitude of acceptance, rejection and noncommitment, ego-involvement, attitude change.)

-Narrative Paradigm (Fisher): (rational world paradigm, narrative rationality, coherence, fidelity)

-Face-Negotiation Theory (Ting-Toomey): (face restoration, face giving, collectivism, individualism, avoiding, obliging, compromising, dominating, integrating, conflict management styles, knowledge, mindfulness, interaction)