Communication: Meaning of Life and Words

Language is an incredibly powerful tool for communication and the words we use control the

It is difficult enough to interpret words accurately, in fact, there are no doubt more misinterpreted messages than not (Cherney and Tynan, 1990). When the element of nonverbal is incorporated, the rate of misinterpretations increases dramatically (Elgin, 1980).

To be honest, before I started this class, I thought it would be a boring class and I chose it just because I need it for my university transfer. In our first class, we needed to give a definition about communication, and my answer was really directly: talk to other. However with the time flies, sixteen weeks have been already gone, I feel complicated and changed my mind right now. And today, in the next few minutes, I want to talk about it and thanks to something.

Human communication can be described with five different key arguments which can be in relation to this statement: “Human thought is not neutral, but everything we think and communicate is constructed from a particular point of view, whether we realize it or not.”(Steinberg and Angelopulo, 2007). These five key arguments each have their own influences on how humans communicate with each other in different ways.

There is no doubt people subconsciously take in doublespeak. This is perhaps the most sinister aspect

2. Words do not mean the same things to the listener as they do to the speaker.

Misunderstandings can cause barriers on how people communicate with each other. When individuals encounter people from a different language, sometimes they do not know how to react or are afraid that they may say something that could offend the other person. One example is that what one person says, it does not necessarily mean what they intended to say. For example, they may ask an interpreter that speaks that language to translate the other person’s words. In the article, “Language, Communication and Style,” Dima-Laza states, “a receiver’s understanding of the message that they

Language, like perception, gives us the opportunity to gain knowledge. We use language to share different ideas in detail. However, it does

However, once people notice that language gives some misunderstandings sometimes, language will be less powerful to affect our perception.

Language is a key ability required to communicate with others and if someone lacks this expertise they encounter countless obstacles. At the end of 2010, my family and I immigrated to the United States of America. At the time, I had mixed emotions about the move, I was unable to process everything. I did not know how I was going to survive in a new country with a completely different culture. For the first ten years of my life, I had been brought up in an Indian household where I had been instilled with Indian values and spoke Punjabi. Much to my dismay my largest obstacle would be the language barrier, because I wasn't fluent in speaking English. When I started to attend school, everything began to intimidate me. I needed to get accustomed to a completely different schooling system compared to the one I had just come from. I wasn't fluent in English which hindered my ability to communicate with my teachers and my peers. On the first day of school, I had difficulty navigating through my elementary school because I was unable to figure out where I was supposed to go. I tried asking other students for assistance, but no one was willing to help me. When I finally found my class, my teacher gave the class an introduction and assigned the class an assignment which we were given twenty minutes to complete. I looked at the assignment which had the words "about me" printed on top. I quickly glanced through the rest of the assignment and found that I did not understand any of it. At

The need to communicate has driven much development in human history, and the need to communicate over distances too great to shout over has been just as important. From smoke signals to semaphore, from signposts to sending letters via messenger, we have discovered faster and more effective means of communicating. Still, it became more and more necessary to communicate instantly.

This report is based on impression formation. A study was conducted to see if the order of information presented about a hypothetical person to a participant has an effect on their impression final first impression of that person. Participants from London Metropolitan University (80 participants) were put into two groups, in which they were asked to rate their impression of a hypothetical person with a list of given adjectives (positive and negative), first they are given words that describe this hypothetical person, the describing words were identical, just presented in different orders, depending on which one (of the two) groups the participant was placed in. It was found that a more positive opinion was described for the

Language can be analysed as an item or material object and by doing so we can identify that language is made up of words and a series of rules to help us form sentences. However, if language is only viewed as a material object and not a social process, language becomes purely vocabulary and learning grammatical rules. In this case, language would be “fixed and finite” and wouldn’t “explore the complexities involved in using language for communication” (Scarino & Liddicoat, 2009, p. 16). The main function of language is to help us communicate with one another in a clear and concise manner. Language appears on advertisements, books, online in chat rooms or social media, speeches, recordings from the past and it is always in our minds; all day, every day. Language is systematic, indicating that it is governed by a set of rules to make meaning out of words, phrases and sentences. However, language is also shaped by the social context, which is greatly influenced by the relationship of the speakers (Gardner, 2017a, s. 13). According to Chomsky (2006, pp. 99-100), we all have an innate language makeup which begins to develop language structure in utero. This is demonstrated through all of us having been exposed to various experiences and training, however, still acquiring grammar that is extremely similar. Australia is very culturally diverse and because of this, teachers may find that some students may experience difficulties with their language development due to their

Communication is a part of everyday life. Not only is it present in our personal lives, but in the

Before conversation, person A is told that person B is a troublemaker. A negative image is then stored in the mind of person A. Finally person A greet person B in a suspicious way and being aware. It highlighted that people behave and react what they expect towards other “labelled” people.