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Daniel Eusebio Roque – 0543278 – CMD 4A. Pragmatics of Human Communication. Summary in chapters 1 through 8 Conclusion. Pragmatics of Human Communication. Chapter 1 – Frame of reference Phenomena of human communication Syntactical Semantics Pragmatic
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Pragmatics of Human Communication • Summary in chapters • 1 through 8 • Conclusion
Pragmatics of Human Communication Chapter 1 – Frame of reference • Phenomena of human communication • Syntactical • Semantics • Pragmatic • All behavior is communication, all communication affects behavior
Pragmatics of Human Communication Chapter 2 – Some tentative axioms of communication • Individual does not communicate; he engages in or becomes part of communication. • Mathematical concept of function – variables with infinity of possible values (not absolute) emerges only in relation to each other.
Pragmatics of Human Communication Chapter 3 – Pathological communication • Erroneous judgment was based on content rather than on the interaction. (example: sarcasm) • The functions of communication are the relation between 2 or more responses, not the nature of the statements as individual entities.
Pragmatics of Human Communication Chapter 4 – Pragmatics of human communication • Human interaction = communication system • Variables • Relations • The principle that in open systems a given end state can be reached by many potential means.
Pragmatics of Human Communication Chapter 5
Pragmatics of Human Communication Chapter 6 – Paradoxical communication • 3 types of paradox • Syntactical • Semantics • Pragmatic • Pragmatic paradoxes are distinguished from simple contradiction especially in that choice is a solution in the latter but not even possible in the former.
Pragmatics of Human Communication Chapter 7 – Paradox in psychotherapy • Positive – many of the noblest pursuit and achievements of the human mind are linked with the ability to experience paradox. • Fantasy –humor – love – symbolism – creativity • Two young monkeys playing (example) • Creativity = unstable equilibrium, balance disturbed between emotion and thought
Pragmatics of Human Communication Chapter 8 – Epilogue • ‘It is not the things themselves which troubles us, but the opinions which we have about these things.’ – Epictetus (1st century AD) • Is the mind a formalized system? Unanswerable. • …nothing inside a frame can state, or even ask, anything about that frame.
Pragmatics of Human Communication Conclusion
Pragmatics of Human Communication End presentation Questions, remarks?