Father Abraham
Chapter 1
1) The definition of communication in this chapter covers all the major components from the origin of the subject matter, which is derived from a Latin word “communis. It also states that communication is not complete without transmission of common or meaningful information from one person or group of persons (sender) to another person or group of person (recipient) in a way that generates shared attitudes, values, beliefs, feelings, or behaviors between the sender and recipient. (Alban, 2012, p. 8) The strengths of this definition is that its comprises of twentieth-century theories, and also include all the major factors that makes communication complete for example; Person, message sender, message recipient, encoding and decoding of a message transmission, creating unity. The weakness of communications here is that a person or group of persons (sender) can simply misinform the (recipient) which can lead to a state of total crisis. Physical forms of communication are the most used, as everyone smiles, frown, wink, touch, salute and all forms of body movement.
2) I’m originally from Ghana west Africa, when I initially came to America I experienced a lot verbal linguistic barrier because of my accent and coming from a British colony so many of my pronunciations were quite different. They was this incident of me going to the store one day and my next door neighbor was trying to show me where to get a cab, I didn’t really understood that he was referring to a taxi. On our way the taxi driver told me he needs to stop and put some gas in his car, I was confused and said do you mean refuel your car? He said no gas, arriving at the filling station I discovered that we both meant the same thing but using different terminology. When we finally get to my destination the taxi driver told me he really likes my white pants, for a brief moment I sincerely thought he was referring to my underwear. Not until he touched it that I realized He was rather
1) The definition of communication in this chapter covers all the major components from the origin of the subject matter, which is derived from a Latin word “communis. It also states that communication is not complete without transmission of common or meaningful information from one person or group of persons (sender) to another person or group of person (recipient) in a way that generates shared attitudes, values, beliefs, feelings, or behaviors between the sender and recipient. (Alban, 2012, p. 8) The strengths of this definition is that its comprises of twentieth-century theories, and also include all the major factors that makes communication complete for example; Person, message sender, message recipient, encoding and decoding of a message transmission, creating unity. The weakness of communications here is that a person or group of persons (sender) can simply misinform the (recipient) which can lead to a state of total crisis. Physical forms of communication are the most used, as everyone smiles, frown, wink, touch, salute and all forms of body movement.
2) I’m originally from Ghana west Africa, when I initially came to America I experienced a lot verbal linguistic barrier because of my accent and coming from a British colony so many of my pronunciations were quite different. They was this incident of me going to the store one day and my next door neighbor was trying to show me where to get a cab, I didn’t really understood that he was referring to a taxi. On our way the taxi driver told me he needs to stop and put some gas in his car, I was confused and said do you mean refuel your car? He said no gas, arriving at the filling station I discovered that we both meant the same thing but using different terminology. When we finally get to my destination the taxi driver told me he really likes my white pants, for a brief moment I sincerely thought he was referring to my underwear. Not until he touched it that I realized He was rather