What Is Interpersonal Communication?
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 1980
Abstract
This article considers four alternative types of definitions of interpersonal communication, each identifying an essential element of the phenomenon, named here (a) level, (b) quality, (c) basis for predictions, and (d) self-concept involvement. The definitions are described, an underlying similarity and relationship are examined, and a new definition of interpersonal communication is offered, accounting for the four essential elements. The implications of this definition to pedagogy as well as to theory and research are discussed.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Communicator, v. 10, issue 1, p. 52-63
Scholar Commons Citation
Cissna, Kenneth N., "What Is Interpersonal Communication?" (1980). Communication Faculty Publications. 677.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/spe_facpub/677
