1.) The constitutive and informational view of communication are two distinct
subjects that we have talked about earlier on in the semester. The constitutive view is
basically what we do everyday and what we talk about, without declaring what specific
subject to talk about. In the constitutive view, all our interactions build onto one another
and it goes into discourse because its all interrelated.
The informational view on the other hand can be described in one simple
example. When a person comes up to you and tells you that they want to talk about this
certain topic, and you agree, that is an example of informational. It is not like the
constitutive view because constitutive relies on an interaction building on the other.
Informational specifies which direction the conversation is going or basically what is
gonna be talked about, whereas constitutive lets the interaction take its own course.
The interpersonal topic that I have chosen for my research paper is: Initiation and
maintenance of intimate relationships. My native theory of this topic would be
constitutive. As we moved through the fist several weeks my native theory has evolved
into a better understanding of the constitutive view. I now know that the constitutive
view is simply something we do everyday in our interactions with others, and initiation
and maintenance of relationships is something that I talk about with my friends and other
peers almost everyday of my life. We never really declare that this is what we are going
to be talking about, it just takes its place into conversations, and it just builds up from
there. Safely going back to conclude that my native theory of my research topic is the
2.) When someone comes up to me in a business suit and asks me for directions I
would simple give it to him. The cognitive schema that takes play in this situation would
be a prototype. According to Trenholm and Jenson...