Chandler Text reflection

What I found most piercing about the Chandler text was the insistence of communication's implications and impacts. "Reading between the lines" is not what can be, but what must be done when processing a "receiver's" "message." What someone says can be loaded with meanings. A person can say something to avoid a situation, reference something that would only be understood by certain people, and so on. It is impossible to limit interpretations because of both the sender's and receiver's sociocultural backgrounds.

A "message" can only provide meaning for the receiver, but can also reflect upon the sender. What someone says can create enormous implications about their character, background and perspectives. I was reminded of what professor Glick had said once when I took his class Linguistics 114, that when speaking and interpreting the thoughts of other's, remember that you only think that way because you are a college student in the northeast United States from a middle-class background, or whatever the case, and however much you try to distance yourself from that you cannot break from the way you were brought up to think. Even if you do not agree with most people of your own background, you are still influenced by your exposure to it. Context is impossible to escape, whether you like it or not.