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This is http://www.essayz.com/a8911291.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %RECEIVED COMMUNICATION MESSAGE ACCEPTED LANGUAGE 891129 In communication there are messages sent and messages received and/or accepted. The messages which are sent are not necessarily the messages which are received and/or accepted. The messages which are received and/or accepted depend upon the meanings of symbols and actions to the receiver, just as much as upon the meanings of symbols and actions to the sender of the messages. The messages which are received and/or accepted further depend upon the assumptions made by the receiver regarding the intentions and manner of communication of the sender---is the sender being: sarcastic, indirect, direct, manipulative, coercive, friendly, selfish, generous, foolish, clever, naive, pretentious, dramatic, misleading, honest, secretive, open, etc. The messages which are received further depend upon the actual and perceived paradigms within which the sender and receiver operate---and the extent to which those paradigms are characterized by behaviors which are addictive, codependent, collusive, etc. The messages which are received depend upon how defensive the sender and receiver are regarding the sending and interpretation of messages; upon how secure they are in being who they are trying to be. Further all depends upon how defensive each perceives self and other to be. The messages which are received depend upon the nature of the relationship between sender and receiver; by virtue of previous personal interactions, by virtue of previous personal relationships within and among their respective communities, by virtue of assumed identifications of the two with respect to communities which are perceived to be relevant. Here prejudices and fears may play as large a role as objective realities. The messages which Jack receives from Jill depends upon identifications which Jack and Jill make between self and/or other with groups such as: Whites, Negroes, Blacks, Africans, Latinos, Asians, etc.; Christians, Muslims, Jews, Bahais, Buddhists, Shintoists, Humanists, Atheists, Agnostics, Catholics, Protestants, etc; scientists, engineers, technicians, militarists, pacifists, etc; Americans, Russians, French, Germans, English, Irish, Israelis, Palestinians, Indians, Pakistani, etc. The identifications which are made, may be based upon fact, fiction, paranoia, fear, mis-perception, prejudice, lies, etc. The effect of the identifications may be somewhat the same regardless of the basis upon which the identification was made; messages are received in terms of identifications which have been made and relationships which are perceived to exist for whatever reason. There is not a simple one to one relationship between messages received and messages sent. Messages sent often do not correspond in any one to one way to messages which were intended to be sent. Messages are sent by body language without intention. Messages are sent by what is not done, said or written; as much as by what is done, said or written. It is futile to try to define what message was actually sent in an objective way; for in situations which are of greatest importance, the reality of the message is as much defined by the reception and interpretation processes, as by the generation and transmission processes. Only when messages are of a very formal character in keeping with generally accepted formal rules of generation, representation and interpretation; is it possible to confirm that the message received is the same as the message sent---making possible objective verification of the essence of the message, as between sending and receiving computer centers. The importance of these consideration increases as the level of power and misunderstanding between peoples increases. The more destructive power that people have, the more important it is to all the people involved that they understand each other and their messages in ways which do not lead to the exercise of destructive and disintegrative power. The exercise of destructive power is not integrative action, and cannot be controlled in ways to make it be an integrative action. To avoid the fatal exercise of destructive power people need to work hard on understanding each other's messages in ways which lead to integrative behavior, rather than to disintegrative behavior. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================