| Appropriateness | responding in ways that fit the communication context.
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| Channels | the mediums that carry messages between communicators.
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| Civility | accepting others as equal partners in reaching common goals.
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| Co-culture | cultures within a culture.
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| Communal | relating to a community or group of people who share interests.
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| Communication | the process of creating and sharing meaning through the use of symbols.
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| Culture | everything that makes up our "way of life," including shared values, knowledge, behaviors, and symbolic expression.
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| Decoding | the interpretation of a message by deciphering symbols into understandable and meaningful ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
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| Diversity | the value of distinct perspectives that membership in various groups can bring and understanding the process by which difference becomes meaningful and developing the competence to live, learn, and work within many cultures.
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| Dyads | consist of two people communicating.
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| Encoding | the initiation and creation of a message as a communicator translates ideas, thoughts, and feelings into symbols.
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| Ethics | the principles that guide our decisions about what is good or bad, right or wrong.
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| Feedback | a response or reaction to a message.
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| Initiator | one who begins or advances the communication process by generating a message.
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| Interpreter | one who perceives and attempts to understand a message.
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| Interpersonal communication | interaction among a small number of people.
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| Intrapersonal communication | an internal dialogue with ourselves; self-talk.
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| Mediated communication | occurs when communicators use some form of technology, including television, radio, film, newspapers, and the Internet.
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| Message | a symbolic expression of ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
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| Noise | anything that interferes with the creation of shared meaning between or among communicators.
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| Nonverbal communication | messages expressed through symbols other than words.
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| Perspective taking | the ability to consider behavior from someone else's point of view.
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| Public communication | interaction with large numbers of people.
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| Repertoire | a range of effective and ethical communication behaviors from which to choose.
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| Self | the total composite of a person's personality, experiences, and identity.
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| Shock talk | words or statements designed to horrify, outrage, or otherwise offend listeners.
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| Self-monitoring | the ability to see, think about, and act based on the consequences of your behavior.
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| Small group communication | interaction among three to seven people who communicate over time to accomplish some goal or purpose.
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| Symbols | the words, images, gestures, and expressions that we use to represent our thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and feelings.
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| Transactional communication | messages that communicators initiate and interpret simultaneously.
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| Trash talk | words or statements designed to insult perceived adversaries, usually involving name-calling or threats.
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| Verbal communication | messages expressed through a formal language, using oral, written, or signed words.
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