Saturday, 19 May 2012

Lecture 12 - Communication Theory

COMMUNICATION THEORY

Transmission and Communicative theory

Shannon and Weaver Bell Laboratories, 1999

Levels of potential problems within communication:

1 – technical - accuracy
2 – semantic - precision of language
3 – effectiveness

Communication theory is a part of the systems theory multidisciplinary

theory does not work without knowledge of audience and social class

audience categories include:
individuals, adults, women, men, children and housewives.
Subdivided into further age categories. 

Three concepts (Semiotics) include:
1. semantics (which address what a sign stands for)
2. syntactic (relationship between signs)
3. pragmatics (practical use and effectiveness of signs)

Semiotics are useful in researching how to reach meaning from given frameworks.

The phenomenological tradition

Refers to the appearance of an object/event

The corporeal turn

Process of interpretation is central

Classical phenomenology includes:
Phenomenology of perception
Hermeneutic phenomenology

These originally referred to the study of religious texts

‘a hermeneutic cycle’ is a metaphor, from the Greek word.

“transfer is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects or activities”

the socio-psychological tradition
the struggle of the individual

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