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Interpersonal Communication Demonstrated in the Movie, unrivaled Flew Over The Cuckoos NestCommunication is an essential part of our lives. It is through theprocess of communion that we are able to make contact, and thus developwho we are in relationship to others. Interpersonal dialogue is aspecific type of communication in which the people involved are contactingeach other as persons, and through an ongoing process, defining who theyare for each other.In the following pages, I entrust explain six concepts related to the study of interpersonal communication. Following each explanation, I will give examples of how each concept is demonstrated in the movie, One FlewOver the Cuckoos Nest. In doing so, I hope to show that the conceptsintroduced in interpersonal communication can be applied to our everydaylives.Personal versus neutral Communication Each day we engage in various types of communication. Strange as it may sound, each time we speak with someone, we are not unavoida bly engaging them as a person. Sometimes, we just require to cash a check at the bank or pay for our groceries without creating anything deeper. Other times, we might want to discuss our feelings with a friend or introduce ourselves to someone new.Whatever the case may be, the type of communication that we engage in will be more personal at times, and more impersonal at other times. One way to envision this, is to imagine the communication events of our day lying somewhere on the impersonal--------------- interpersonal continuum. There are five characteristics that distinguish the personal from theimpersonal uniqueness, measurability, choice, reflectiveness, andaddressability. Uniquen... ...nherentlygood or bad, but each serves its purpose depending on the linguistic context in whichit occurs. Communication involves cues that can be best understood as parts of acontinuum. This continuum ranges from cues that are primarily verbal(words), to mixed(pitch, tone of voice), to primarily communicatory (facialexpression, gestures, appearance). In any given communication situation,all of these ques work together in the process of negotiating selves. Thisprocess involves constructing and responding to definitions of ourselvesand definitions of the people we are communicating with. Contact and communication is what makes us human. The quality of ourcommunication is directly related to the quality of our lives, bothphysiologically and spiritually. For this reason, learning effectivecommunication skills should be important to all of us.