Wednesday, July 3, 2013

COM 325 / Week Two Discussion: Encoding-Decoding

Watch the video below first.

       Our communication with others has never been simple and easy. Often, we talk and listen in "code." Intercultural communication is more complicated because of the different meaning systems (the arbitrary match of the signifier and the signified ) among people raised in different cultures.

       Tell us about a time or instances when you needed to carefully encode your message to get your message across, and when you misinterpreted and wrongly decoded another's message and, thus, ended up with communication breakdown.

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