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Definition: interpersonal communication from Dictionary of Human Resources and Personnel Management

any kind of communication that takes place between individual people or between the members of a group


INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

From Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Interpersonal communication is a dynamic and complex human phenomenon that includes at least two communicators. These communicators intentionally orient toward each other as both subject and object whose actions embody each other’s perspectives both toward self and toward other. In essence, interpersonal communication is a goal-driven interaction between at least two people that typically occurs in a face-to-face environment. However, scholarly trends are moving toward studying mediated interpersonal communication via communication technologies. Interpersonal communication in organizations represents an interaction process including a variety of relational situations. These internal situations involve superior–subordinate and peer communication. This article centers on internal interpersonal communication. First, an overview of the process of interpersonal communication will be provided. Second, interpersonal communication is situated in organizations by examining superior–subordinate…
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Full text Article Interpersonal communication

From Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
Describes any mode of communication, verbal or non-verbal, between two or more people. While the term medio communication has often been used to specify interpersonal communication at a greater than face-to-face distance, such as when the communication is by letter, email or telephone, it is most…
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Interpersonal communication (see s. 2 ) is of central importance to many aspects of human life. Yet it is only within the last century that it has become the focus of systematic scientific investigation. Such research has been conducted in a wide variety of academic disciplines, most notably social…
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Full text Article Interpersonal Communication

From The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science
Interpersonal Communication
Attempts at defining interpersonal communication date back to the Golden Age of Greece. Plato and Aristotle discussed communication in terms of rhetoric. However, several millennia later there is still no generally agreed upon scientific definition of communication. According to Webster’s New World…
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Full text Article INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

From Encyclopedia of Nursing Research
Keywords: interpersonal communication, nurse-patient relationship, nursing, nursing research, Communication, Nurse-Patient Relations, Nursing, Nursing Research Interpersonal communication refers to a function of language and, along with critical thinking, is the most important skill set in the…
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Full text Article Self-to-Self model of interpersonal communication, 2007

From Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
Self-to-Self model of interpersonal...
Published at the conclusion of a chapter on models, ‘Communication by design’ in Key Themes in Interpersonal Communication (Open University, 2007) by Anne Hill, James Watson, Danny Rivers and Mark Joyce, this model assembles and connects constructs of, and influences upon, people in communication. …
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Full text Article interpersonal communication

From BUSINESS: The Ultimate Resource
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Full text Article interpersonal communication

From Dictionary of Human Resources and Personnel Management
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Full text Article Communication, interpersonal

From Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
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Full text Article Interpersonal Ideology

From The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction
cultural/critical communication interpersonal communication language and social interaction relational communication ethnography of communication ideology relational dialectics Interpersonal ideology is a system of premises about personhood, relationships, and communication around which people of a…
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Full text Article COMMUNICATION THEORY

From Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories
In broad terms, communication refers to the transmission of something from one location to another where the “thing” that is transmitted may be a message, a signal, a meaning, and so on, where both the transmitter and the receiver must share a common code so that the meaning of the information…
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