Elements of Interpersonal Comm

Source-receiver is the person who sends and receives interpersonal messages simultaneously.

Encoding-decoding refers to the act of putting meaning into verbal and nonverbal messages and deriving meaning from the messages you receive from others.

Encoding refers to the act of producing messages thru speaking or writing
Decoding refers to the act of understanding messages.
Speakers and writers are encoders.
Listeners and readers are decoders.

Feedback messages are messages that are sent back by the receiver to the source in response to other messages.
There are positive feedback and negative feedback.
Positive feedback eg: compliment.
Negative feedback eg: critism.

Immediate or delayed feedback
Feedback about how fast you respond to a question.Some will answer without hesitant.Some will answer with consideration.
For example, when a guy propose to a girl, sometimes they take days to reply back, but some just agrees to it immedietly.

Low Monitoring and High Monitoring
Feedback varies from the spontaneous and totally honest reaction (low monitoring feedback) to the carefully constructed response designed to serve a specific purpose (high monitoring feedback).

Feedforward messages are messages that preface other messages and ask that the listener approach future messages in a certain way.

Altercasting
A strategy to persuade people to act in a specific social role. So that they can bahave more prim and proper.

Phatic Communication
Communicate for its own sake. Also known as social grooming, essential in initiating the interactions. It can increased relationship satisfaction, trust, and experience of family affection while growing up.

To preview a message
A type of Feedforward message, to preview the content such as “I got a good news to tell you”

To Disclaim a message
The disclaimer is a statement that aims to ensure that your messages will be understood and will not reflect negatively on you.

Characteristics Of Interpersonal Communication (Dyadic)

Dyadic Primacy

When you have triads, dyads are still primary. Dyads are always central to interpersonal relationships. There is dyadic primacy in almost every large group. Even in families, work groups, neighbours or students in class. Each large group will breakdown into a series of dyads. The specific dyads formed naturally depend on the situation, and dyads will probably change over time.

Dyadic Coalitions

A dyadic coalition is a two person relationship formed for achieving a mutually desired benefit or goal. In groups larger than two, dyadic coalitions will frequently form. Coalitions whether in family, among friends, or at work, may be productive or unproductive. Two workers may form a coalition to develop a program for improving worker morale.

At other times, coalition will be unproductive. For example, a husband or a wife, especially during marital difficulties may form a coalition with one of their children. This often results in alienating the left out spouse and preventing the child from benefiting from a close relationship with that parent.

Dyadic Consciousness

As relationships develop, a dyadic consciousness emerges; they will begin to see or notice they work as a pair, a team or a couple. It is almost as if a third party enters the picture. No longer is it just one and the other. It is now you and the other person and the relationship in between. As relationship becomes more involved, this third party takes on greater importance. Often individuals sacrifice their own desires or needs for the well being of “the relationship.”