CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stress Management, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Pragmatics
20 Jan 2017
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Doesn"t lend itself to a single method or set of techniques. Models will be shaped and defined by the interest of the people who are studying the field. If your analysis is on a certain level, it must, by definition, have to exclude other levels. Relevance is a political concept, is not something you pull out of thin air. Can we, as communicators, do things that will guarantee the success of our efforts at communication? o. Early communication theorists had less interest in what was being communicational that in how the message was put together (encoded), sent (transmitted), and then understood (decoded) Ex; calude shannon from bell labs studied info but always said he wasn"t interested in meaning o. This way of thinking about communication and information is really concerned with the distinction between process and content. Monological models of communication involve a one-way movement of information from an identifiable sender to one or more receivers.
