- Sep 2023
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2–4 months. Babies can respond to different tones of voice (angry, soothing, or playful). 6 months. Babies can associate some words, like bye-bye, with a corresponding behavior, and they begin “babbling,” which is actually practice for more intelligible speech to come. 8–10 months. Babies learn that pointing can attract or direct attention, and they begin to follow adult conversations, shifting eye contact from one speaker to the next. 1 year. Babies recognize some individual words (people’s names, no) and basic rituals of verbal interaction such as question-pause-answer and various greetings. Shortly before or after this time, babies begin to use “melodic utterances” echoing the variety in pitch and tone in various verbal interactions such as questioning, greeting, or wanting.
I feel like it is a little weird to think that babies can communicate with noises. To us we do not really see it as a form of communication but their brains are comprehending many different things and they are still giving some form of a verbal communication. Even if it is something as simple as "melodic utterances" aka just making noises based on what they are trying to do.
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Ancient Greek philosophers and scholars such as Aristotle theorized about the art of rhetoric, which refers to speaking well and persuasively. Today, we hear the word rhetoric used in negative ways. A politician, for example, may write off his or her opponent’s statements as “just rhetoric.” This leads us to believe that rhetoric refers to misleading, false, or unethical communication, which is not at all in keeping with the usage of the word by ancient or contemporary communication experts. While rhetoric does refer primarily to persuasive communication messages, much of the writing and teaching about rhetoric conveys the importance of being an ethical rhetor, or communicator. So when a communicator, such as a politician, speaks in misleading, vague, or dishonest ways, he or she isn’t using rhetoric; he or she is being an unethical speaker.
As a student taking Writing and Rhetoric along with this class it was interesting hearing it come up in another class. I was told it was a form of persuasive writing, which is true. However, it seems there is more to it and it dates back to Ancient Greek philosophers and scholars. While persuasion is the primary meaning it seems it also conveys the idea of writing ethically. Writing ethically was never really something that had crossed my mind but it seems there is an ethical and unethical way of communicating. Although I am not sure what constitutes something as ethical or unethical, I hope soon to figure it out.
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- Aug 2023
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there have been more than 126 published definitions of communication (Dance & Larson, 1976).
It is mind boggling one word can be defined so many different ways. When most people think of communication things like talking or texting would come to mind but it is much deeper than that. With how much change happens in the world every day, little things such as intercommunication get overlooked. From the first humans speaking with onomatopoeias to being able to talk to anyone, anywhere, whenever you want; communication has come a long way since the beginning of history and seems to be ever evolving. With so many different forms of communication and how far it has come it begins to make sense as to why there are so many definitions.
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