How can you describe the politeness theory?
How we manage our own and others identity through interaction, particular through the use of politeness strategies
What are the three assumptions of the politeness theory?
- All individuals are concerned with maintaining face
- Humans are rational and goal oriented with respect to achieving face needs
- Some behaviors are fundamentally face threatening.
What are face-threatening acts?
Behavior that might threaten someone else’s face
What is preventive facework?
Avoiding certain topics, changing the subject
What is corrective facework?
Messages people use to restore their own face after a FTA
What are the strategies for committing a FTA?
- Avoidance
- Go off record
- Negative politness
- Positive politness
- Bald on record
What are the factors that influence FTA strategie choice?
- Prestige
- Power
- Risk
How can you describe the social exchange theory?
Explains when and why individuals continue and develop some personal relationship while ending others
What are the three assumptions of the social exchange theory?
- Relationships (benefits vs costs)
- Minimax principle (people want the most benefit)
- By nature, humans are selfish.
What are the core components of the social exchange theory?
- Outcome (O) = rewards-costs
- Comparison level (CL) = what rewards do I expect to receive
- Comparison level of alternatives (CLalt) = what other options do I have?
Outcome > CL =
Satisfied
Outcome is higher than what you expected
Outcome < CL =
Dissatisfied
Outcome is lower than what you expected
Outcome > CLalt =
Stay
Outcome < Clalt
Terminate
How can you describe the dialectical perspective (theory)?
Explains how individuals sustain relationship over time
What are the four assumptions of dialectical perspective?
- Praxis (more or less intimate)
- Change (relationship will change)
- Contradictions (partners have needs, sometimes opposite)
- Totality (interdependence between relationship partners)
What are the internal dialectics?
Tension between partners:
- Autonomy - connection
- Openness - closedness
- Predictability - novelty
What are the external dialectics?
Tension between the couple and others
- Inclusion - seclusion
- Revelation - concealment
- Conventionality - uniqueness
What are the 4 strategies to handle internal and external tensions?
- Selection
- Cyclic alteration
- Segmentation
- Integration
What is the communication privacy management theory?
Explains why and how people make decisions about whether to conceal or reveal private information based on specific rules
What are the six major principles of communication privacy management?
- Public- private
- Nature of private information
- Privacy rules guide
- Boundaries
- Boundary coordination
- Boundary turbulence
