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%VERBALLY INTERPRETING ACTIONS 780407
It is often said, "actions speak louder than words";
yet many of us tend to feel that the meanings of actions
are not real unless they are confirmed with words. To the
extent that we live in this way we tend to take verbal
commitments more seriously than behavioral commitments---
regarding behavioral commitments as not binding unless
they are confirmed in words, perhaps in signed legal
contracts. When we ignore behavioral commitments in
preference for verbal statements of commitment we are
denying the saying that actions speak louder than words.
It is much easier to be deceptive in verbal
communication than it is to be deceptive in intimate
personal behavior, especially if the verbal communication
is reduced to writing to the exclusion of non-verbal
communication through personal presence. Thus
institutions of higher education facilitate deception
through their almost exclusive emphasis upon verbal
communications---especially written verbal communication.
In intimate personal behavior there are many channels of
communication which are operating simultaneously and in
parallel. It is virtually impossible to maintain parallel
deceptive communications through many parallel channels of
communication. The lack of integrity of communication and
perceptive will give away the deception to the more
sensitive persons. For this reason administrators who
seek to succeed through deception are likely to emphasize
the use of written verbal communication, and play down the
importance of intimate non-verbal communication. They are
threatened by persons who are sensitive to non-verbal
revelations of their deceptive intentions---and seek to
undermine such sensitivity.
The tendency to deprive behavior of meaning apart
from interpretive verbal statements---also tends to
protect those who would cope through deception. The
deprivation practice blocks the perception of the meaning
of behavior apart from verbal interpretations---blocking
all non-verbal channels of communication and so promoting
sin and alienation. The deprivation practice is promoted
by implying that a poem, picture, painting, dance,
sculpture, movie, symphony, song, play, or other work of
art is not understood unless it has been verbally
interpreted---preferably by an authoritative expert.
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