I found it interesting
how the four main perspectives discussed in the chapter all seemed to be
incomplete in how they approached and covered communications. It seems more
practical to combine two or more of the perspectives together in order to
better encompass the breadth of communications as a whole.
Out of the four
perspectives I felt that the psychological perspective may have been the most
straightforward in its approach. That may be because it is the most familiar.
This perspective takes into account both the sender and the receiver in deciphering
each individual part of a conversation where the final communication is determined
not only by the person sending the message but also by the way the receiver of
the message decodes it. I found this fact to be very important due to the fact
that the ultimate success or failure of a communication is in how the sender’s
message is interpreted. Therefore it is important for the sender to know his
audience and how his words may be interpreted.
I can see your point that the perspectives given in our text seemed to approach the subject of the various perspectives without going into much detail. I'm hopeful there is more to be said about them as we move further into the text. I also agree the psychological perspective is more likely to be the most familiar to the masses. However, I think at first glance it may seem the "most straightforward in its approach" because it is a linear model. Given such, this approach to some extent ignores social content and applies significant assumptions about human behavior. This alone causes me to think that it is not the most effective approach to successful communication.
ReplyDeleteI always tell myself, "It's not just how the message is given, but how it's received as well." Don't know if that is anything anyone else has heard of, but it made me think about the way I communicate the message is critical because the way the other person is going to receive it might be taken differently than how I sent it. I do agree though that the psychological perspective is the most straight forward due to the fact that one needs to take into consideration how they are sending the message ensuring it's how they intend to receive the message.
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