Wednesday, May 26, 2010

The transmission model of communication

Daniel Chandler disagrees with Reddy's perspective of language. He critiques that such view promotes language into a passive form. He also argues that there is no information in language. However, such accusations may be faulty. Reddy claims that languages function as a transporter of thoughts. To understand the transporter one must comprehend the language because language doesn’t act on its own, which promotes the process of learning a language into the active form. Also, according to Reddy, words carry messages and meanings. Let's say words are like a car, going from place A to B. A could be a writer and B could be a listener or a reader in this case. Writers insert their thoughts and ideas into words and they travel to the readers. Through words, meanings are created. It is impossible to obtain information without language because you wouldn't be able to understand words. Language and information always go together.

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