Basis of Interpersonal Communication

• Relationships
  • Employer <-> employee
  • Parent <-> child
  • Teacher <-> Student
  • Colleagues
  • Strangers
  • Friends
  • Partners (in business, in love, in crime...)
  • ...?
• The relationship dictates certain things about the communication
  • Intimacy
  • Honesty
  • Formality
  • Language
  • ...?
• So what elements of a relationship are important?