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500-word essay on the following:
What ‘communicative competence’ is. Discuss thoroughly how a person can try to achieve ‘communicative competence’.
To substantiate your explanation / discussion, cite and describe a situational example.
Then write a conversation script, based or not based on the situational example you already gave. Incorporate a mix of verbal and non-verbal aspects of communication. Label or mark conversation parts that indicate communicative competence.
500-word essay on the following:
Interpersonal conflict is often times explained through the following metaphors:trial, game, balancing act and garden.Explain thoroughly why each word stands as a metaphor for interpersonal conflict.Cite a situational example for each, and describe thoroughly the role of interpersonal communication in each conflict. (Make sure that your examples are communication-related.)
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Running head: INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT
Interpersonal Conflict
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Institution
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INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT
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Interpersonal Conflict
Interpersonal conflict is the situation in which an individual or group frustrates or tries to
frustrate the goal attainment efforts of others. It exists when someone tries to cause trouble with
others by disagreeing with them or otherwise fighting them. The conflict can consist of three
different components. First, the behavioral component involves interfering with the objectives of
another person. The cognitive part comprises a disagreement between the parties that illustrate
the differences between the interests and objective of the conflicting parties (Knapp and Dally,
2002). Lastly, the effective component relates to the negative emotional state of the opposing
parties. Interpersonal conflict gets divided into diverse categories including the relationship
conflict between two or more people arising out of personality clashes or emotionally-charged
interactions and real and policy conflict (Knapp and Dally, 2002). It often gets explained as a
metaphor to trial, game, balancing, act, and garden.
Interpersonal conflict as a metaphor to trial gets framed as a struggle everybody must go
through. It can get attributed to a person traveling on a sinking boat with no lifeboat or on a
rocky road. Life is full of ups and down with the trials characterized by frustrations and
hopelessness. The complexity and uncertainty of the conflict will lead to such emotions (Knapp
and Dally, 2002). Interpersonal conflict as a trial, therefore, emphasize on ho...
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