What Constitutes Communication?

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What Constitutes Communication?

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What Constitutes Communication?Read the following scenarios and decide if communication has occurred. If it has, was it effective, and who communicated what to whom. Please use the book as a reference thanks

1. As Mrs. Maria De Wormer is boarding a bus, she notices a grubby-looking “weirdo” in one of the front seats where she usually sits. She decides to take another seat toward the rear of the bus.

2. Benny Lackluster is among a group of observers who are “oohing” and “aahing” over an abstract painting in an art gallery. Later it is discovered the painting was hanging upside down.

3. Armando, a continental, Italian lover-type, is having dinner with Loretta Whizbang, a ravishing brunette. Although he hopes to ply her with margaritas at the El Paso Cantina and then whisk her back to his apartment for the “coup de Gras,” the conversation seems to be going nowhere.

4. During a dramatic pause in his lecture, Professor Windplenty overhears a student’s stomach growling.

5. Hiram Hardcase overhears a conversation his roommate is having on the telephone one day: “No . . . I don’t think he knows I’m moving out . . .