1 / 15

Can One Not “Not Communicate?

Can One Not “Not Communicate?. Proseminar in Communication—COM 422 John R. Baldwin—Illinois State University. Pragmatics of Communication Background (Watzlawick, Beavin, & Jackson, 1967). Gregory Bateson and the study of schizophrenic children

jasonr
Download Presentation

Can One Not “Not Communicate?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Can One Not “Not Communicate? Proseminar in Communication—COM 422 John R. Baldwin—Illinois State University

  2. Pragmatics of CommunicationBackground(Watzlawick, Beavin, & Jackson, 1967) • Gregory Bateson and the study of schizophrenic children • Hmmm…The problem may not be in the child…it must be in the ____________. • Communication double-binds • Discrepancy in messages (especially verbal and nonverbal) • What’s going on in this video? • Lindenstrasse(German Soap Opera) • Erich, Helga, Marion (22:00)

  3. WB&J’s 5 Axioms • One cannot not communicate • All communication has content + relationship • The nature of relationship depends upon how partners punctuate sequences • Humans communicate digitally and analogically • All interchanges are symmetrical or complementary

  4. Some thought questions • How do the axioms relate to family or relational “systems” (something we may talk about later in the course?) • For WB&J, what defines • Communication? • Message? • Interaction?

  5. Compare and Contrast

  6. One Cannot Not Communicate • What do the authors mean? • When would this axiom apply for WB&J? • How do other axioms relate to this one, if at all? (some may relate more than others!)

  7. Applying the axioms • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids!

  8. More on communication…

  9. Language in a System: Communication Sending Meaning All of These Receiving Interpreting Conceptual Pragmatic

  10. ALL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVE • A MODE OF TRANSMISSION • SIGNS • SIGNALS

  11. ALL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVE PRAGMATIC FUNCTION

  12. TRUE LANGUAGE-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS HAVE • CONCEPTUAL FUNCTION • INTERCHANGEABILITY • CULTURAL TRANSMISSION • ARBITRARINESS • DISCRETENESS • DISPLACEMENT • PRODUCTIVITY

  13. Language productivity (continued) • EMERGENT • EVOLVES • BUT ALWAYS RULE GUIDED (set by language and culture) • Phonetic • Semantic • Syntactic • Pragmatic

  14. A thought question:

  15. A first look at a class exercise

More Related