1. For most people today, the term rhetoric has unfavorable associations. Whatsynonym or phrase captures what Aristotle meant yet doesn’t […]
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What enthymemes have advocates on each side of the abortion issue employed in their public deliberative rhetoric?
1. For most people today, the term rhetoric has unfavorable associations. Whatsynonym or phrase captures what Aristotle meant yet doesn’t […]
According to McPhee, the four flows constitute an organization. Using this definition, is a family an organization? A religious congregation? A group of close friends? Your communication theory course?
1. The phrase communication constitutes organizations comes out of the socio-cultural tradition of communication theory. How might a cybernetic scholardescribe […]
As a rhetorically sensitive scholar, Bormann defined SCT terms carefully. Can you distinguish between dramatizing messages and fantasies? Do you understand why it’s a difference that makes a difference?
1. As a rhetorically sensitive scholar, Bormann defined SCT terms carefully. Canyou distinguish between dramatizing messages and fantasies? Do you […]
Hirokawa and Gouran claim that small groups are like living systems. Do you see parallels between the four functional requisites of task groups and the body’s need for respiration, circulation, digestion, and elimination?
1. Hirokawa and Gouran claim that small groups are like living systems. Do yousee parallels between the four functional requisites […]
Cognitive dissonance is a distressing mental state. When did you last experience this aversive drive? Why might you have trouble answering that question?
1. Cognitive dissonance is a distressing mental state. When did you last experiencethis aversive drive? Why might you have trouble […]
Can you think of five different words or phrases that capture the idea of message elaboration?
1. Can you think of five different words or phrases that capture the idea of messageelaboration?2. What peripheral cues do […]
What practical advice does social judgment theory offer if you want to ask your boss for a raise?
1. How does the concept of attitudes as latitudes help you understand your attitudetoward the various requirements of this course?2. […]
Draw a map of part of your social network. For whom are you a strong tie? A weak tie? When have you seen a weak tie provide strong benefits for you? For the other person?
1. Draw a map of part of your social network. For whom are you a strong tie? Aweak tie? When […]
Why do you think many disclosers and their confidants fail to have this discussion?
1. In Principle 2, Petronio cites five foundational criteria that affect our personalprivacy rules. Which factor most shapes the rules […]
