Thursday, September 10, 2009
Elements of Communication
While reading chapter two I found the chart breaking down the elements of communication to be interesting. This chart puts labels on all things that are relevant to communication. I began to think that if these elements were not taken into account when analyzing communication how chaotic things would be. If someone was to just hear the words you said and did not factor in anything else there would be a lot of awkward moments. For example if I were talking to a person at a sporting event I might have to shout. Someone may think that is rude if they did not know that there were thousands of people cheering and the only way to be heard was to yell. Also if I were to say a funny comment to a friend of mine it could be seen as rude and innapropriate if they did not know who I was talking to. So as you go down this list the importance of all these elements is brought to light when you think of examples where if they were not taken into account the miscommunication that could occur. I found this real interesting because I had never taken into account all of these things that play a large role in communication.
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This has made me remember the many times I have walked into a conversation at exactly the wrong moment. Everyone will be laughing and you don't know what about and then you feel like the odd meant out. Or when you walk in and something really perverted comes out but it becomes heard out of context. These types of situations are not avoidable. Many times it happens at work. I am a server and the worst is when I will be having a conversation about the night before with a coworker and one of my tables walks up asking where the bathroom is but they just heard something that wasn’t meant to be heard. For the rest of their meal they give me weird looks when in reality I was talking about a friend. No matter what context is very important when looking at communication patterns.
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