How are the content and the relationship dimensions of communication different?

What will be an ideal response?


The content or denotative dimension of the message is the subject, idea, or topic of the message-the what of the message (1). The relationship dimension of the message refers to what the message reveals how the speaker views his or her relationship to the other participants-the how of the message (1). (total of 2 points)

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