BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie
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categories of feedback. They are listed in the or<strong>de</strong>r in which they occur<br />
most frequently in daily conversations.<br />
o Evaluative: Making a judgment about the worth, goodness, or<br />
appropriateness of the other person's statement.<br />
o Interpretive: Paraphrasing - attempting to explain what the other<br />
person's statement means.<br />
o Supportive: Attempting to assist or bolster the other<br />
communicator.<br />
o Probing: Attempting to gain additional information, continue the<br />
discussion, or clarify a point.<br />
o Un<strong>de</strong>rstanding: Attempting to discover completely what the<br />
other communicator means by her statements.<br />
4.3. Communication Functions<br />
What we are communicating for? There are many significant and<br />
much elaborated answers to this interrogation. In what proceed will be<br />
exposed the most famous of them, that introduced by the Russian-<br />
American linguist, Roman Jakobson (1960).<br />
Jakobson distinguishes six communication functions, each<br />
associated with a dimension of the communication process: context,<br />
message, sen<strong>de</strong>r, receiver, channel, co<strong>de</strong>. Jakobson allocates a<br />
communicative function to each of the components.<br />
The referential function refers to the context. Here we have the<br />
function emphasizing that communication is always <strong>de</strong>aling with<br />
something contextual, referential (the dominant function in a message like<br />
'Water boils at 100 <strong>de</strong>grees'). The referential function of communication is<br />
illustrated via the words: this, that, those etc.<br />
The poetic function is allocated to the message and puts 'the focus<br />
on the message for its own sake'. Messages convey more than just the<br />
content. They always contain a creative 'touch' of our own. These<br />
additions have no purpose other than to make the message "nicer".<br />
Rhetorical figures, pitch or loudness are some aspects of the poetic<br />
function.<br />
The emotive function focuses on the sen<strong>de</strong>r, as in the interjections<br />
'Bah!' and 'Oh!'. The sen<strong>de</strong>r's own attitu<strong>de</strong> towards the content of the<br />
message is emphasized. Examples are emphatic speech or interjections<br />
(exclamation).<br />
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