Communication in Everyday Life

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This course explores the often-hidden significance, dynamics, and meanings of everyday communication. This course looks at a broad range of everyday communication contexts—including self-presentation, interpersonal communication, romantic relationships, and workplace culture—and considers the rhetorical power of ideas like “tradition,” “common sense,” and “folksiness.” Ultimately, students in this course will learn about everyday communication as a form of ongoing persuasion and culture-making that continually defines our social world.