Interpersonal Communication Processes
Principles of Interpersonal Communication
Exercises
- Getting integrated: In what ways might interpersonal
communication competence vary among academic, professional, and civic
contexts? What competence skills might be more or less important in one
context than in another?
- Recount a time when you had a DTR talk. At what
stage in the relationship was the talk? What motivated you or the other
person to initiate the talk? What was the result of the talk?
- Pick an important relationship and describe its
relationship culture. When the relationship started, what relationship
schemata guided your expectations? Describe a relationship story that
you tell with this person or about this person. What personal idioms do
you use? What routines and rituals do you observe? What norms and rules
do you follow?