PRINCIPLES OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

IPC is a transactional process

process

Elements are independents

IPC is a purposeful

to help

to learn

to relate

to influence

to play

IPC is a series of punctuated events

continuous transaction

no beginning and end

IPC is ambiguous

having more than one meaning

can be interpreted differently

less accurate

IPC relationships may be symmetrical or complementary

symmetrical relationship

complementary relationship

IPC refers to content and relationship

relationship

content

FOUNDATION OF IPC

noise

physical

physiological

psychological

semantic

channel

context

cultural context

physical dimension

temporal dimension

social-psychological dimension

Sourcer-receiver

interpersonal competence

encoding-decoding

code-switching

messages

feedback messages

feedforward messages