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) It is for that reason too that we are so apt to see communication or transmission of language as a 'simple' ordinary activity and expect the other to understand us. We forget (as Delaney for one pointed out) that language is a string of interpretations that symbols into verbal form. The symbols -- the way that we see the phenomena -- are engineered by our own particular experiences. Ipso facto, it therefore makes sense that each interprets these phenomena differently and that each imposes a different lens as symbol. It follows, therefore, that we are bound to fail in catching the drift of the person's message (or communication) as the sender intends it.

This was the insight that came to me through the project of watching two people communicate to one another in the cafeteria. It was as though they were throwing a ball to one another. There was the sender. The ball was the medium, and there was the recipient. There were also all the unseen factors surrounding the ball; floating in the air as it were. These included the context, the mood in which ball was thrown and received (one person could have been tired, the other experiencing the stress of menstruation...

Each of these contexts and more invisibly attach themselves to the act of ball throwing and reception and can adversely impact the passage of communication.
Detaching myself and seeing the process of language and the subject of communication in this way enabled me to achieve the rite of reggregaition where I benefitted from the anthropological experience.

Sources

Boas, F (1982) Race, language, and culture Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Delaney, C (2011) Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology John Wiley & Sons

Korzybski, A. (1994). Science and sanity: An introduction to non-Aristotelian systems and general semantics Institute of GS: UK.

Alan Dundes (1972) Seeing is Believing Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press.

Marcy Brink-Danan (2010), Names That Show Time: Turkish Jews as Strangers and the Semiotics of Reclassification. American Anthropologist 112(3): 384-396.

A" ki Dil Bir Bavul (Two Languages, One Suitcase), 2008, Orhan EskikAy and A -- zgAr DoAYan

http://archive.org/details/IkiDilBirBavul_383

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Boas, F (1982) Race, language, and culture Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Delaney, C (2011) Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology John Wiley & Sons

Korzybski, A. (1994). Science and sanity: An introduction to non-Aristotelian systems and general semantics Institute of GS: UK.

Alan Dundes (1972) Seeing is Believing Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press.
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