Communication & culture (AS)

This week in communication and culture we learnt about meanings of key words and how they could have many different meanings such as culture (how you live), context (an explanation of text), representation ( speaking on behalf of someone), value (the cost of something), identity (to recognise someone), power (being in a stronger position than someone else), code (a system of words/figures), idiolect (the way you speak), sociolect (groups you belong to), dialect (structure of language you use) all of these can be interpreted differently by everyone. As things like these make up a person, everyone has different things that hold value to them, and different things represent them.


We also learnt about the process approach, and we realised how many ways you can communicate, as something as simple as an alarm clock communicates with you even though it is a one way communication. We saw within the process which was the sender, what was the message and who was the receiver. For example using an interpersonal communication (between 2 or more people): sender: Me, message:To meet someone (context: deciding to meet outside reception. Form: Verbal), Receiver: Friend.