Friday, November 9, 2007

Sharing words

Communication has it's mysteries, the definition of communication states that there must be an emitter and a receiver, a medium and a message, the message is transmitted from the emitter to the receiver through the medium.
One of the problems with communication is noise or interference, that's why the most important part of it is to make sure the message was understood by the receiver as the emitter meant it to be.
It is interesting to notice that this is often forgotten, and can lead to misunderstandings... it's also interesting to see that sometimes the misunderstandings are bound to a different phenomenon, the personal acknowledgement of words.
The meaning of words is personal, and sometimes the message is sent out using words that have different meaning to the receiver, distorting the emitter's initial idea.
Other times, the messasge is interpreted differently based on the idea the receiver has of the emmiter. This means that not only words are labeled and sorted out in pretty little shelves in our minds, but also people, even our own friends.

1 comment:

cláudia a said...

=)

mas só porque de vez em quando pode ajudar, digo que existe uma coisa: feedback.

"o que me quiseste dizer foi que...? será que entendi bem?"

às vezes dá jeito,
mas outras vezes não...

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