Across
- 5. Liberation from any form of political, economic, racial, religious, or sexual oppression; empowerment.
- 9. The linguistic work of assigning meaning or value to communicative texts; assumes that multiple meanings or truths are possible.
- 10. Words that have multiple meanings
- 13. Theory about theory
- 15. Theorizes communication as discursive reflection, or reflection on the ways that discourses create dominant and marginalized voices.
- 17. They look for cause-and-effect relationships that will predict the results when people communicate.
Down
- 1. The requirement that a scientific theory be stated in such a way that it can be tested and disproved if it is indeed wrong.
- 2. The assumption that truth is singular and is accessible through unbiased sensory observation; committed to uncovering cause-and-effect relationships.
- 3. An applied approach to knowledge; the philosophy that true understanding of an idea or situation has practical implications for action.
- 4. The study of information processing, feedback, and control in communication systems.
- 5. A research method that manipulates a variable in a tightly controlled situation in order to find out if it has the predicted effect.
- 6. A method of participant observation designed to help a researcher experience a culture’s complex web of meaning.
- 7. Intentional analysis of everyday experience from the standpoint of the person who is living it; explores the possibility of understanding the experience of self and others.
- 8. The production and reproduction of a social order, such as an organizational culture, we are looking into the behaviors of other people
- 11. The art of using all available means of persuasion, focusing on lines of argument, organization of ideas, language use, and delivery in public speaking
- 12. The study of verbal and nonverbal signs that can stand for something else, and how their interpretation impacts society.
- 14. The study of the origin, nature, method, and limits of knowledge.
- 16. Arbitrary words and nonverbal signs that bear no natural connection with the things they describe; their meaning is learned within a given culture.