Language and Communication
When a person speaks to others a complex
series of events unfolds. The person
doing the talking must organize his
or her thoughts into an ordered, coherent,
logical pattern. After the central
themes of what will be said are conceptualized,
the same person must convert
those thoughts into verbal-audible
speech. For the speech to be understood,
the audience of listeners must
share basic knowledge regarding the
meanings of the sounds being uttered
by the speaker. Otherwise what is being
said will be nothing more than gibberish.
In other words, the speaker "encodes"
language into coherent spoken
language by constructing sound combinations
based on shared linguistic
knowledge. The audience must "decode"
what is being said to make sense
of the utterance. This description, however,
makes up only a small part of a
typical communicative exchange. Each
individual participating in the speechbased
communication must rely on
shared cultural knowledge before actual
interpretations of what is being said can
be made. The speaker's body language
must be read; the speaker must know
something about the audience: What is
their primary spoken language—English?
Swahili? Bantu? Do the listeners
perceive themselves as having higher or
lower status than the speaker? What
happens when the speaker is a male and
the listeners are females? What might
happen if the speaker uses certain hand
gestures to emphasize what is being
said?
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series of events unfolds. The person
doing the talking must organize his
or her thoughts into an ordered, coherent,
logical pattern. After the central
themes of what will be said are conceptualized,
the same person must convert
those thoughts into verbal-audible
speech. For the speech to be understood,
the audience of listeners must
share basic knowledge regarding the
meanings of the sounds being uttered
by the speaker. Otherwise what is being
said will be nothing more than gibberish.
In other words, the speaker "encodes"
language into coherent spoken
language by constructing sound combinations
based on shared linguistic
knowledge. The audience must "decode"
what is being said to make sense
of the utterance. This description, however,
makes up only a small part of a
typical communicative exchange. Each
individual participating in the speechbased
communication must rely on
shared cultural knowledge before actual
interpretations of what is being said can
be made. The speaker's body language
must be read; the speaker must know
something about the audience: What is
their primary spoken language—English?
Swahili? Bantu? Do the listeners
perceive themselves as having higher or
lower status than the speaker? What
happens when the speaker is a male and
the listeners are females? What might
happen if the speaker uses certain hand
gestures to emphasize what is being
said?
Language and Communication
When a person speaks to others a complex
series of events unfolds. The person
doing the talking must organize his
or her thoughts into an ordered, coherent,
logical pattern. After the central
themes of what will be said are conceptualized,
the same person must convert
those thoughts into verbal-audible
speech. For the speech to be understood,
the audience of listeners must
share basic knowledge regarding the
meanings of the sounds being uttered
by the speaker. Otherwise what is being
said will be nothing more than gibberish.
In other words, the speaker "encodes"
language into coherent spoken
language by constructing sound combinations
based on shared linguistic
knowledge. The audience must "decode"
what is being said to make sense
of the utterance. This description, however,
makes up only a small part of a
typical communicative exchange. Each
individual participating in the speechbased
communication must rely on
shared cultural knowledge before actual
interpretations of what is being said can
be made. The speaker's body language
must be read; the speaker must know
something about the audience: What is
their primary spoken language—English?
Swahili? Bantu? Do the listeners
perceive themselves as having higher or
lower status than the speaker? What
happens when the speaker is a male and
the listeners are females? What might
happen if the speaker uses certain hand
gestures to emphasize what is being
said?
series of events unfolds. The person
doing the talking must organize his
or her thoughts into an ordered, coherent,
logical pattern. After the central
themes of what will be said are conceptualized,
the same person must convert
those thoughts into verbal-audible
speech. For the speech to be understood,
the audience of listeners must
share basic knowledge regarding the
meanings of the sounds being uttered
by the speaker. Otherwise what is being
said will be nothing more than gibberish.
In other words, the speaker "encodes"
language into coherent spoken
language by constructing sound combinations
based on shared linguistic
knowledge. The audience must "decode"
what is being said to make sense
of the utterance. This description, however,
makes up only a small part of a
typical communicative exchange. Each
individual participating in the speechbased
communication must rely on
shared cultural knowledge before actual
interpretations of what is being said can
be made. The speaker's body language
must be read; the speaker must know
something about the audience: What is
their primary spoken language—English?
Swahili? Bantu? Do the listeners
perceive themselves as having higher or
lower status than the speaker? What
happens when the speaker is a male and
the listeners are females? What might
happen if the speaker uses certain hand
gestures to emphasize what is being
said?
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| BN ID: | 2940163198887 |
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| Publisher: | Asa |
| Publication date: | 12/14/2019 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
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