Paper Topic:

`Before you can say anything, you must first have something to say.` Discuss and analyse this statement. Answer should make reference to relevant thoeries of communication and include a minimum of six academic references.

Look Who 's Talking

This essay will demonstrate that people communicate with one another because they want to share something with others , want personal benefits or want to achieve certain goals . This will be proved by defining communication and the reasons for communicating , followed by Social Penetration theory and the Rational world paradigm

Communication is a vital aspect of everyday living . But sometimes people do not know what communication really means . That is why it is very important to know first the real meaning of communication to be able to communicate

well . According to Condit , communication is a process of relating . It is weaving and reweaving of visible and invisible four-dimensional webs , which constitute and reconstitute matter and ideation as humans , discourse , and other beings within a dynamic field of many forces (John , 2006 , pp .3-4 ) There are three basic elements of communication . These are the sender /encoder , the message , and the receiver /decoder . Message is the most important element in a communication process . It is the part of the anatomy of communication that is taken for granted most of the time . People use it in various ways and characterize it as the essence of communication without noting its ambiguity (Heath , 2000 ,

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Communication 's goal is shared meaning . One must have reason for talking so that he /she would know what to say . If he /she does not know what to say , then he /she will not be able to communicate . It is very essential that he /she knows what to be communicated . And he /she have to make sure that his /her message is relevant and easy to comprehend Various reasons were identified why people really need to communicate

There are three reasons why people communicate . First is the expression of oneself . People say whatever on their minds by using any form of communication , whether it is verbal or nonverbal . To understand one another is the second in the purposes of communicating . Things that are not clear between people can only be understood through communication It is very important for people to say what they mean and mean what they say for better understanding . In some circumstances , there are things that are appropriate to say only during those times . Sometimes , feelings are expressed in the most conventional way , which is through communication . They want other people to know and understand how they feel . Last but not the least , people communicate to meet certain goals These goals can be to persuade others and negotiate with them . This is very important especially in interpersonal relationships like business transactions . For instance , if a person sells something to another person , he /she must be able to communicate well . He /she must be able to explain the importance and benefits of his product for the buyer to purchase his product . They are able to do this through different strategies . These reasons for communicating are under O 'Keefe 's message design logic ' or the implicit theories of communication . And this theory shows the...

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