Consider the pragmatic perspective. Does it make sense to think of communication as patterned interaction? How is communication like a game? How is it different from a game?
I think people’s personality is important to know to understand a communication. In a textbook, figure 2.3 on pg. 33 shows moves of a person A and B, but it doesn’t show the reason why A ignored B, or B offered apology for A. There must be their personalities that made them act like that. Without knowing their personalities, we cannot know the reason of their acts.
Furthermore, if there is a communication problem between A and B, it might be hard to fix their problem without knowing personalities of the two. Maybe, a person A only feels calm when she eats a cake. If we just look at the moves of them, we cannot figure out the way to fix the problem.
Communication is like a game because two people who are interacting are a partner, and one’s acts and words changes by the other’s acts and words. It is like a game because depending on how one acts, the other changes his moves.
However, on the contrary to a pragmatic perspective, I think communication is not like a game because people are not like chess that moves only in a certain way. For example, a boy said, “You look terrible” for a girl he likes. He said this because he got very nervous in front of the girl. Even though they used to be a good friend, people sometimes break the rules and patterns they created.
The boy’s act seems illogical, but we can understand the reason why he did it by knowing his personality and feeling.
The pragmatic model is the logical way to see communication, but humans don’t always act logically. I think there is no pattern for human communication, because humans are changing constantly, and how people talk each other changes all the time even little by little.
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15 年前
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Hello Chocoyuko,
I just posted my blog response regarding the Pragmatic perspective and was totally convinced that it can be compared to a game because of the strategies involved in wanting to get what you want.
However, after reading your blog, I realized that there is definately more to it than just game playing - there is a whole new dimension related to people's personalities and how the game doesn't work for everyone if they are not aware of how the other person is going to react and that we are not like chess that move only in certain ways and that emotion ought to be considered such as the boy who got nervous and the girl who did not know and took it the wrong way.
Your post really got me thinking and brought up interesting ways. Feelings and emotions get in the way of the game playing and things don't happen as straight forward in communications as they would do in a game such as chess or cards, and that emotions make things unpredictable.
Very good post!
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