Essays on Interlocutor

Self-awareness and Empathy. Awareness of another person is accompanied by an emotional assessment of the person, an attempt to understand things, predict changes in behavior and model their own behavior. Since this process involves at least two people, and each is an active subject, each should consider not only another person's needs and motives but also the way that person understands the needs and motives of the partner in the construction of strategies of interaction. Thus, self-awareness and empathy are the key conditions for teamwork and interpersonal communication. In this case, one needs to understand the very essence emotional ...

The Main Features of Introverts' behavior in the social environment

As is known, introversion is one of the most common categories or indicators to measure personality traits. Introverts are people whose personality traits are very different from those of other people, who can also be called extroverts. Introverts tend to accumulate their energy and direct it to their inner world, while extroverts waste their energy on the interaction with the outside world. If an extrovert needs a constant dialogue with the people, an introvert can successfully do without it. An introvert is capable of minimal contact, which is also necessary, but it happens rarely and only in the companies ...

Can't Read Nonverbal Cues”

This paper of Mark Bauerlein, known for another article “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future”, underlines the problem of losing millenniums the ability of nonverbal communication. As a result of constant being in the air of social networks, the generation of 21-st century or Generation-Y missed the opportunity to interact with each other in real life without smiles and textual messages. The article discusses the difficulties in communication of the modern world because of unconscious or conscious ignoring emotions of an interlocutor. The people of the age of technologies are not ...

Codeswitching is a process that usually happens with speakers who master more than one language. These speakers are capable of using one or another language during their conversations depending on the topic or interlocutor that they have their conversation with. Weinreich defines a bilingual person a following way: “who switches from one language to the other according to appropriate changes in speech situations” (Weinreich 73). There are many different social factors that may provoke a speaker to apply codeswitching to the conversation, it usually happens when the speaker wants to relate to the social class, age, gender or ethnicity ...

Art of oratory is one of the most valuable skills, which helps to convey your position beautifully and competently to a wide range of listeners. Not many people have the innate ability for such performances. Those who have mastered the secrets of oratorical skills have the potential to become an interesting personality and achieve overwhelming success in almost any field (business, politics, art, etc.) A real orator must possess a number of qualities that make him an ace of public speaking. Firstly, he needs to be erudite in order to pick the right words for processing his thoughts at ...

Allen Hajek formulates his “Many Gods Objection” against Pascal's Wager. In his opinion, Pascal's Wager does not exhaust the relevant options regarding whether there is a Christian God or not. In this paper I shall defend Pascal's Wager against this objection. Hajek's objection to Pascal's wager can be reconstructed as follows. Hajek points out that (1)Pascal's either-or proposition is an oversimplification. (2) We could derive an infinite degree of expected utility from more than one religious option. (3) According to Pascal's Wager, we can either choose only one Christian God or not choose one Christian God (4) This ...

In this paper I will argue that technology—and Internet technology in particular—makes us more alone. This isolation is most evident when the Internet ceases to function. It seems like a regular occurrence that certain major websites go down due to hackers or technical problems. When a bank website is out of service, or when Facebook seems slow, Internet users are frustrated because they begin to sense how isolated they truly are. We can just imagine what would happen if a major government or global commerce website went down for just a few days. The Internet or social ...

Each person participates in social life. A particular way of communication makes it possible to achieve a special aim by establishing the contact with the person: obtaining some information, meeting the mental necessity for communication, etc. Communication represents exchange of information for effective interconnection. Non-verbal communication occupies a greater percentage of the connection between people. So, non-verbal communication can be interpreted as such a behavior of a person that signals about emotional status and the nature of the interaction between communicating individuals. Non-verbal communication means can be expressed in different ways. For example, it may be clothes, hairstyle, facial ...

Interview Assignment

Presently young people do not tend to think about the distant future, but someday everyone will undeniably become a representative of elderly. We always ask our parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles about their childhood, school years and life in general, and at the same time we cannot imagine ourselves at that age and how our answers would look like. That is why it is important to discover in-depth thoughts of people of the particular stage of life. In order to complete this task I have chosen two people, a man and a woman, who are older than 65 to ...

Final Summary Paper

Communication is a complex process that involves words, voice volume, and a tone, body language, the topic of discussion and the communication history between interlocutors. Communication can be called effective, when the recipient understands the message and expresses its meaning back to the sender. Interpersonal communication takes place when two, or more people, exchange their messages and have the roles of a speaker and a listener. Nevertheless, a lecture cannot be called interpersonal because only the lecturer speaks, while the audience listens. One-way communication is also a communication, which is called broadcasting. Interpersonal skills show, how effectively people get ...

I believe that among all careers available today, those dealing directly with people are the hardest. Although it seems so easy to communicate with human creatures, it is actually a tough task to accomplish. The problem is you cannot get into other person’s mind and retrieve the information you need, you can never fully understand what their intentions are, finally, you never know what to expect as a reaction to your words. Considering all above mentioned, I can assume that my excellent communication skills can be defined as one of the qualities that distinguishes me from others.

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Human life is full of different people and interesting situations, which, very often, need the general consent in various moments. Here is the time for the appearance of the “hidden” term – compromise. The compromise is the mutual agreement on the basis of mutual concession. For the most part, it can be achieved by means of a dialogue between each other. The general compromise may be gained only by the insight of interlocutor’s motives; it is rather important, when something simultaneously depends on both parties. Frequently, people just do not listen to others, except themselves; it is worth to mention, ...

Introduction

I. Description of Theories Applied II. Application of Social Penetration Theory

B. Application of Economic Aspect of Social Penetration Theory

III. Application of Uncertainty Reduction Theory

A. Virtual Communication and Uncertainty Reduction

B. Benefits of Virtual Interaction and Theoretical Explanation Conclusion

Introduction People tend to interact with the help of various social networks more frequently. USA Today reported that more people entrust the choice of their mates to Internet. Statistics represented in the article showed that 22% of men and 12% of women surveyed experienced “a romantic, sexual or erotic relationship online, even some of ...

The main and the most difficult task for the person, who is negotiating is making the other party to accept the correctness of his arguments. Often, the other side is reluctant to cooperate and it is showing signs of distrust during the negotiations. In order to succeed in that field the negotiator should know how to establish good relations with the other party, how to prepare for the negotiations and present the idea and how to set the mutual understanding between parties. In order to persuade the other party to his side, the negotiator needs to understand the ...

All communication devices are divided into two large groups: verbal and nonverbal. It may seem that nonverbal means are not as important as verbal. In fact, it is not true. Although verbal communication is of central importance for the majority, it is incomplete without nonverbal devices. Even after developing language, people consciously or unconsciously use body movements. Eye contact, facial expressions, head movements, positioning of feet and legs, torso shifts, postures, tone of voice and even space between people during conversation are elements of body language. Professionals in the field of communication studies define these body movements as the ...

Socrates is popular for his shifting thoughts on Greek philosophical ideas about the nature of the universe. Philosophers before Socrates’ time also examined of the problems associated with human life. Nonetheless, Socrates was the first philosopher to analyze ethics as a science. In addition, Socrates looked at the principles of human life from a methodical and consistent perspective. Many critics note that Socrates influenced the expansion of Western philosophy and culture in many ways. In fact, a number of critics believe that Socrates was instrumental in his teachings and such thoughts impacted on the development of Christianity. Arguably, Socrates wrote nothing and ...

Socrates appears as an individual with rather radical viewpoints for his time, considering that in the Golden Age of Greece, where Pericles believed the masses deserved liberty, he saw and insisted on the need to guide the masses, like a wise shepherd does to a herd. To him, people should not be self-governed and that those that claim to be philosophers or people with deep knowledge of the things around them, should first realize their ignorance, which is their true wisdom. His most characteristic trait is his ability to turn any conversation around and lead his interlocutor exactly to his point, ...

Face-to-face communication is a method of conveying and retrieving information through straight interaction between the source and receiver. In this case, straight indicates that there are no communication devices such as letters, phones, computers, letters or telegrams are used in the communication process. In the contemporary world there are many methods of communication whose suitability’s varies according to occasions. This has been made by the technological advancements that are currently higher than ever before (Winger, 248). Modern communication technology is wonderful but it has its restrictions. If a person indeed wants to reach indulgent in altercation with others, there ...

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Speech

Speech is the capacity of speaking. It is a stream of articulated sounds that utilize common knowledge to form units of meaning, giving itself the status of meaningful words that people use to communicate. That is, speech is the most natural verbal signal of thoughts that people sends across and receives. However, there is also certain standard linked to it. When a person speaks without hesitation, repetition, and with fluency, he is attributed to have an accurate speech. In his/ her case, speech would be something without errors; a clear expression of thoughts, ideas, feelings, and perceptions. To that adds ...

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Abstract Communication is the process and the result of exchanging the information. Effective communication — the exchange of information when manager is able to make effectual decisions and brings them to the employees. Many theorists and experts in management agree with the following statement: communication is the main obstacle in achieving main goals of organization (enterprise). The reason for the low efficiency of communication in organizations is forgetting the fact that communication — it is an exchange. During the exchange both parties play an active role, as it is important not only to provide information , but it is necessary for ...

Our time is the age of information technology, computers, the Internet, bigger and bigger illusions isolated from reality. Every year, people go deeper and deeper into the virtual computer world, forgetting the one that gave life to them. This electronic world for many people has replaced the real a long time ago, as well as virtual communication with the machine began to prevail over the direct human communication. The modern person is less and less in interaction with people and nature, giving it up for the virtual spaces of the computer world. Virtual communication, virtual thinking, virtual nature, virtual world, ...

Introduction

Sapir – Whorf theory states that the world is a reflection of our words. To a large extent, the real world does not exist outside the boundaries of words, of language. This implies a connection between identifying the terms and concepts that people want to express in order to project a communication process and the language used for expressing them (Chandler, “The Sapir – Whorf Hypothesis”). This sends the speaker towards two different points. First, as scholars observe, the thought is directly linked with the language (Putz & Sicola 136; Krauss & Chiu 2), therefore, when a person speaks, s/he defines and expresses his/her thoughts thru the ...

Islamic Women in American Culture

Comparison of American and Arab cultures is often boiled down to religion differences. Few sources emphasize attempts of missioners to impose Christianity during colonization of Islamic territories. Islam was significantly distorted as well as the role of Islamic women in the society (Haddad, 2005). In this paper I tried to represent a contemporary view on Islamic women and suggest an optimal communication path towards them. There are several differences between Islam and American women. The most topical issue is the role of women in Islam culture. Islam is perceived as a religion which appreciates and encourages female role of ...

MOTIVATIONS OF CODE-SWITCHING

Code switching is currently considered one of the main subjects of study in linguistics. This can be shown by the fact that within the last decade most of the major conferences on linguistics had at least one paper on the subject. One of the topics within the subject that has been of interest to sociolinguists is on the communicative intention of this phenomenon. The researches in this particular topic make a scientific attempt to understand and clarify why people engage in code switching (Wardhaugh, 2009, p. 85). Why two or more people that understand two or more languages would choose ...