What are the contexts for communication? These include interpersonal, intrapersonal, public, and mass communications.
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What is the context of a communication
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Well, context generally refers to the surrounding circumstances or situation in which a communication occurs
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So, the first type of context that you might categorize is an interpersonal communication
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This is communication within oneself. It might also be referred to as self-talk
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Now, this may not be generally recognized as a form of communication as it does not involve two parties or the transmission of information
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but this is focused on mental processing of information and the reassertion of that information to oneself such that it affects one's actions, disposition, perceptions, etc
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So, interpersonal communication is a context and form of communication in itself
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Now, a more readily recognized form of communication or context for communication is interpersonal
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and this is between two or more individuals. The conversation can be one-on-one, and this is a two-person communication that follows the formal communication process
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That is the encoding of a message, the receipt of a message, the response with feedback, that type of thing
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Now, group communication involves three or more people, usually up to a small group of about eight to ten people
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Anything more than that crosses into the line of our next type, which is a public communication
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But with interpersonal communications you have group communications and you have team communications Group means you have a small group there You communicating with these individuals collectively and there a back and forth with more than two people
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The team communication means that you all have a similar objective. So it's a modified form of the group communication
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That is, everyone's on the same page with the same type of topic of conversation, if you will
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Now, a public communication is where you expand beyond the group. You have a general conversation with a larger group of people
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and the conversation may vary based upon who you're talking to in the audience
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Obviously, that becomes less apparent as the audience grows, as the public grows who you're talking to
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Then the message becomes less individualized and more general or singular in nature
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and it's simply being broadcast, which leads us to our next form of communication, which is mass
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communication. This is a public communication, again, that is distributed at large. It is a
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singular message that is not part of the back and forth that you would traditionally assume in the
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formal communication process. It is a one-way delivery of a pre-constructed message to a large
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group that message does not change. It is pre-crafted. It is singular so it is not unique to any of the
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members of the group. So these are the primary contexts in which communications occur
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