Define by what it is not & exercise
By Prof Dr Sohail Ansari ‘Life is too ironic. It takes sadness to
know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence absence to value presence’.
Define by what it is not
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A thing
is to be defined by what it is; however, deconstruction defines a thing by what
it is not. Deconstruction itself, therefore, should not be defined as by what
it is; but by what it is not.
Pick, if
any, the subtle differences in the following statements.
When the
tube was broken, air rushed in.
Air rushed in because the tube was broken.
It was not until 1906 it was banned.
It was banned in 1906.
Differentiate
between intrapersonal and intrapersonal Communication; compare their merits
& demerits.
Differentiate between interpersonal and intrapersonal Communication;
compare their merits & demerits.
Interpersonal and intrapersonal communication can be
differentiated on the following base.
Interpersonal communication:
Introduction: interpersonal communication is that kind of
communication which takes place within or among more than two people with use
of different mediums of communication. With betterment and advancement of the
communication mediums, it has brought the community more closely and as a
family.
Definition:
When communication which takes place from one to another, face
to face, both communicator and communicated persons reflects personal characteristics
as well as social role and relationship. Some theorists may include
particularly the role of mediator of the communication.
Relationship:
For forming a proper communication, both models of communicator
should have a conducive relationship to each other, to communicate, understand
and accept for any kind of responses.
Face to face meeting:
Communication involves face to face meetings whilst exchanging
idea, thoughts and other form of words between the participants. Here the
communication might be mediated by using different types of mediums of
communication such as television channels, telephonic lines and other modern
mediums.
Roles:
Each and every communicator plays distinctive roles in forming a
relation between them.
However, there is another definition of communication as “who
says what, in which channel, to whom and with what effects”. It is my personal
reflection that the communication of this definition does not reflect time and
where does it take place, more than that communication in modern era does not
merely involve talking but it is larger community or social context.
Process of interpersonal communication:
The process of communication can be viewed from the general
prospective of Shannon and Weaver, of this model of communication, there are
four basic components forming a proper communication including the sender and
message, the medium and the receiver. Here the noise provides an additional
component.
Here the first two components the sender and message, the sender
composes a message to persuade the receiver. The sender encodes the message
properly so as to make sure that the message will be reflected by the receiver
under proper channel.
The channel of communication in this model refers to the mode by
which the message is transmitted. Most familiar channels advancing in the
modernity are Radios, television and telephonic. However, interpersonal
communication is different in this regard to mass communication since some
participants may not use certain medium and communication may take place with
face-to-face way.
The forth components of the model is the receiver. The receiver
is responsible to receive the message and decode it in way that they could
intelligently response to the sources.
Here the interaction of message takes place when the receiver
responses the sender after decoding properly and it is in form of feedback, it
helps to clarify the message and enhance communication properly. It is cyclical
process of communication.
There are different types of communications in terms of number
of participants involving:
1. Dyadic
communication:
This type of communication lies within two people, for instance
discussion takes place between the Teacher and his student about communication
1. Group
communication
The group communication consists of participants more than
three; here proper group communication of interpersonal communication can be
resembled when lesser number of people will be involved. However, there is no
distinctive number of exceeding participants to be involved in the group communication
when it limits more than three.
1. Public
communication
This types of communication involves a larger participants
basically forms in one way style of communication process. The feedback of the
receiver is minimal. It takes place in larger audience and mostly takes place
for entertainment and persuasion.
Intrapersonal Communication
Intrapersonal communication takes place within one person. It is
meant to reflect oneself to clarify something. There are three concept of
intrapersonal communication namely as following:
1. Self-conception
It is the one of the concepts of intrapersonal communication
because it determines how he sees himself and which to oriented to others. It
is also known as self-awareness. There are several factors effecting the
communication.
a) Belief
It is self-orientation to know what is true or false, good or
bad. It might be descriptive or prescriptive.
b) Values
Values are integral part of belief to determine what is right or
wrong. It is a deep seated foundation lying within the person’s mind and
concept.
c) Attitude
It is a learned idea of the person and it is generally
consistent with value. It is often emotional.
1. Perception
When the self-concept lies internally and perception focuses
outward. It is deep rooted in belief, values and attitude. It related and
closely intertwined with self concept to create better understanding of both
within and outside world.
1. Expectation
It is futuristic oriented message dealing with long term
occurrence. People form expectation on the base of the strength of ones learned
ideas within the society.
There are different types of intrapersonal communications as
following
1. Internal
discourse
Internal discourse relates to thinking, concentrating and
analysing within one self. It might of day dreaming, praying or meditating.
1. Solo-vocal
It is that communication which takes place while one shouts
loudly for clarifying one-self or rehearsing, when you are talking to
yourselves when students don’t do homework properly, you might talk yourself to
remind on the next time to redo it.
1. Solo-written
communication
It deals with writing for oneself and not for others. Like
writing notes for your future use.
Merits and demerits of intra and interpersonal
communication:
1. Irreversibility
of communication
Merits:
Once when interpersonal communication has taken place, it could
not be hold back. When it has conveyed properly and in better way, there is
always good impact
Demerits:
It is by contrast, when the communication was not properly
flowed with good impact, it is always bad impression.
1. Communication
does not only be verbal communication
Merits:
When you are in good mood, you may convey to others in better
way.
Demerit:
The communication might be of body language and it is really
hard stop when something goes on emotionally, at that point of time, you may
resort to have violence interaction.
1. Situation
Merits:
The communication can also be depending on the situation, when
situation will be calm both in psychologically and sociologically then
communication would be flowed smoothly
Demerits:
It is by contrast, when the situation of discourse is in harsh
and not good, the communication might not be good flow
Merits and demerits of intrapersonal
communication
Demerits:
When the intrapersonal communication takes place, there is no
feedback since there is no receiver to decode whatever he talks about himself.
Merits:
Intrapersonal communication does not need to wait for secondary
feedback and it could take place whenever he/she wants
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