When Harry Met Sally

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Billie-Jean Undesser Kaylyn Pick Interpersonal Communication 12 July 2013 A Look at Interpersonal Communication Communication is an essential part of life, as humans we strive for it and researchers study it. There are 2 forms of communication verbal and non-verbal both categories can be broken down but always stem back to the broad base. There are numerous concepts and theories about how and why as humans we communicate. Interpersonal communication is one of the most intimate forms of communication. There are many levels of interpersonal communications starting with just saying “hi” to a stranger to the most intimate of relationships between sexual partners, close friends or family members. In watching the movie When Harry Met Sally one can see how an interpersonal communication between two individuals evolves from strangers meeting in to an intimate relationship. Throughout the movie, there are various communication theories that can be pointed out, as well as different points that non-verbal communication is used. Two theories that stand out particularly clear are the social exchange theory and the semantic triangle theory. Throughout this paper, I will discuss the relevance of the two theories mentioned using examples and details from the movie. I will also be discussing in contrast some if my own personal experiences. The social exchange theory states “relationships grow develop, deteriorate, and dissolve as a consequence of and unfolding social-exchange process.”(Interplay) The movie When Harry Met Sally starts out with Harry and Sally driving together to New York. The two of them team up in order to save them both time and money also the boredom of the long drive by them. Having never met each other before and having been up among friends the situation starts with the most basic of relationships, strangers meeting for the first time. As the movie

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