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Theories of Interpersonal Communication
Web Resources
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- Chat Rooms
One new type of interpersonal communication is that which is sent through a medium (in this case, the computer), but still directed at specific individuals instead of mass audiences. The ICQ Chat Rooms offer rooms on everything from medicine to movies, from cars to cultures, from animation to animal rights, from romance to racing. Similar options are available on Yahoo!Chat (chat.yahoo.com), but that site requires you to sign up for a Yahoo ID.
- Erving Goffman and Everyday (Electronic) Life
In addition to giving a concise summary of Goffman’s views on social life (which gave rise to his views of “face” presented in Chapter 7), this essay applies his essay to a new context: Internet communication.
- Politeness Theory
This university website from a sociolinguistics course at the University of Oregon provides a brief summary of politeness theory. Perhaps the most useful for our chapter are the explanations and links to different types of politeness and specific strategies. These links lead to several examples each of bald on-record, off-record and other types of strategies.
- Uncertainty Reduction Theory: Berger’s Tale
Charles Berger tells his own story about how URT developed.
- Meet the Theorists
· Leslie Baxter
- Meet the Theorists
· Charles Berger
- Meet the Theorists
· Sandra Petronio
- Meet the Theorists
· Ralph L. Rosnow
- Rumors: The National Inquirer
Rumors, gossip, or news? Based on the chapter’s definition of rumors and gossip, you might look at The National Enquirer website and see if the principles apply here.
- Urban Myths—Snopes.com
An interesting site as it relates to rumors, Snopes.com offers a very wide variety of categories of urban myths. Under each category (e.g., “horrors”), there are more categories (e.g., “cannibalism,” “freakish fatalities”). These links lead to specific stories and their refutations.
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