Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

[She looks sleepy, but she's jacked up on coffee and on a roll. Expect questions. Lots of questions.


Ok, we've played games, now let's bring it back...honesty and communication. Tell me what you understand about honesty and it's role as relates to influence, manipulation, friendship, trust and reciprocity? How do we recognize honesty? In what ways do we try to assure the honesty of those we communicate with? And what about body language? Is body language honest?

And now tell me how this fits with sender/message/receiver.

Comments

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

What influence is there to be had from manipulating the truth? Perhaps not outright dishonesty...but spin?

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Manipulation of the truth can be used to influence the public into seeing something in a more or less favorable light. Spin is often used to make something appear to be not as bad as it actually is.

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

[She smirks} That's the truth, right there. Ok, so why would we want a favorable light? Not just politics...all communication?

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Because it makes communication easier.

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

And who benefits from communication made easy? ((Yay Foucault!))

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

We all do really, both the sender and the receiver. Easier communication facilitates learning, the transfer of information and makes socializing simpler.

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Aha...socialization. The binaries present in the human condition, particularly social conditioning dictate that the animal within us establish benefiial relationships for our own survival. When we were primitive, the instinct of survival drove men to learn behaviors that helped to communicate trustworthy status, facilitating group ties. As we evolved as a social beast, humans...[wow, she's off on a roll. You might get about 1/3 of what she says, but chances are the entire class just stares at her.]

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

*Elizabeth raises her eyebrows as CJ continues on, looking around and shrugging at the rest of the class*

Uh, yes, Professor