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                          %CONTEXTUAL COMMUNICATION 790118

     All communication takes place within a context.   The
meaning  of  the elementary  parts  of a communication,  a
message,  depends  upon their context.  The context may be
defined  by other parts of the communication,  the  events
which have  occurred just before  the  transmission of the
communication,  the events which have occurred just as the
transmission is received,  the social context in which the
communication  takes  place,  the patterns of culture  and
traditions  which surround the communication,  etc.    The
meaning  of  a  message does not reside in  the  elemental
parts   of   the  message  of  themselves,   but  in   the
interrelationships between  the  parts of the message  and
their  context.   The meaning of a message is not found by
taking  the  message apart,  but by examining  all  of  it
within its broader context; not analysis,   but contextual
perception is the key to understanding messages.

     Misunderstanding often  arises  because  of different
contextual  perceptions  of the same  message.   Different
contexts  give the same message different  meanings.   The
transmitter and receiver of a message may not perceive the
message within the same context,  and so not have the same
understanding  of the meaning of the message.    To  focus
upon  the elements of  the  message will not clear up  the
misunderstanding  which  arose from perceiving the message
within   different  contexts.    Thus  analysis   of   the
misunderstood  message  will not be helpful.    Those  who
misunderstand each other's  contexts  and  the contexts in
which their messages  are  being perceived---need to share
contexts.

     Contexts  may  be  in part defined  by  expectations,
desires,  goals, priorities,  values, etc. A  context of a
message  may  thus  be internal to the  recipient  of  the
message.  What a message will mean depends in  large  part
upon  the recipient of the message.  The meaning is not  a
property of the message, but is something which relates to
the   message  and  the  recipient   and/or   transmitter.
Meaning is not an objective property of a  message.  It is
not helpful to argue about what a message  "really" means.
It  is  helpful to share perceptions of a  message  within
different  contexts,   and to try to clarify the  ways  in
which  different contexts of perception lead to  different
understandings   of   the   meaning   of   the    message.
Communication is contextual, not objective.

                                                                                                                               
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