The Six Concepts Of Interpersonal Communication In The TV Show

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Communication: Survivor

I have chosen six concepts from our book that can be applied to a TV show. Each concept I have choose gives good detail about how interpersonal communication is vital to the show. The six concepts are interpersonal conflict, culture and gender, language, emotion, listening, and deceptive communication. The TV show I have decided to use with these concepts is the show Survivor. The show is a reality TV show that involves 20 contestants that vary from age, race, ethnicity, and gender. Also all of the contestants are from the United States even though they may be a different race or ethnicity. These survivors must live on a remote island with each other and rely on each other for about 40 days until one member is left. I feel like this show gives many great examples of communication and how it can help and hurt people in the real world.
With survivor being a very cultural diverse show it can really show how people …show more content…

Language is a structured symbol used for communicating meaning. Persuasion is a type of language that is used by almost every contestant within the show. Persuasion is the process of moving people to think or act in a certain way. With people trying to get in alliances they must persuade people to get in alliances so they do not vote them out. Also at the end show the last two contestants must persuade the jury to pick themselves to win sole survivor and one million dollars. People in the game must appeal to the pathos, ethos, and logos. Ethos refers to the speakers respectively trustworthiness, and moral character. Pathos is the is how you appeal to peoples emotions and logos is the listeners ability to reason. Reasoning how people make judgments about the world based on evidence rather than emotion or intuition. Most times in the show they tend use emotion over reasoning because they form bonds and sometimes that can

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