You know how i wrote
about people living on their own planets? well i also think that each
person speaks their own language. I’ll explain a bit more. No i don’t
mean Spanish and English, i mean something different. In short it’s
like when two people say ‘i hate you’, one could be hating their
mother for bossing them around, and the other could be hating the
murderer of their late wife.
Anyhow, i believe that each person, depending on in what country they grew up/live in, with which culture, with their specific family setting, gender, race, ‘youth culture’, and so on, each person will learn a different set of codes and rules for how to behave, a different set of associations to colours, symbols, certain music, certain images, and so on. So throughout childhood people learn the way to behave and how to relate to what’s around them through everything they see, hear, feel, taste, smell and think/learn.
Now not every person watches the exact same TV shows AND has exactly the same parents AND the same culture AND the exact same friend group and you understand my drift. Each individual will therefore learn a different language of codes and signs in the media and then understand what they see in a different way to anyone else. Although there may be similarities, there are subtle differences too.
So, to use an example to explain, when an Arabian watches the Arabic news on SBS, they will surely understand what is being said, however logically when an Englishman tries to watch the Arabic news on SBS they won’t understand a thing. . . or will they? According to a theory i just learnt about at school called semiotic constructivism, although the Englishman won’t understand the complete picture, he will still understand the facial expression, the body language, the colour of the background, the photographs that are shown and any possible emotion in the music played on snippets of ‘live’ streaming.So although he won’t understand the full picture, he will still understand something, and put together that ‘something’ into his own individual narrative.in a similar way when twenty different people all watch neighbours, they will all understand a different ‘something’ and put together this ‘something’ into their own individual understanding of the narrative, and thus make their own new narrative [which may be subtly changed from the original]. This is because they’ve all had different parents who teach them different body language [see friend groups similar influence], different home environments full of music or art or full of not much at all which teach people about all the connected things to either music or art or whatever it is, different friend groups and thus how to relate to other people and different ways to react to people so the right way to react to things etc, different cultures so what certain symbols colours codes and sounds mean and what/how they do at certain occasions or times, different fav tv shows as a kid teaching different codes and symbols and colours and music and styles of tv that you like/don’t like and all the associations connected to these, and different artists/fav music as a kid and learning what certain sounds mean and also overall what the sound of someone’s voice means. So what the person is saying just by the sound of their voice. A lot of what i understand when foreign people speak, well international not foreign, is mostly understood through the souuuuuund of their voice. Also body language or people language, and the last bit intelligence, and the last tiny little extra bit is instinct. :]
So, each person has learnt a different way to view the world, and thus each person will speak about what they see in a different way, and therefore each person will speak their ‘own’ language.
This is why we have miscommunication and all that stuff.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend :)
all the best in every way
Britta
Anyhow, i believe that each person, depending on in what country they grew up/live in, with which culture, with their specific family setting, gender, race, ‘youth culture’, and so on, each person will learn a different set of codes and rules for how to behave, a different set of associations to colours, symbols, certain music, certain images, and so on. So throughout childhood people learn the way to behave and how to relate to what’s around them through everything they see, hear, feel, taste, smell and think/learn.
Now not every person watches the exact same TV shows AND has exactly the same parents AND the same culture AND the exact same friend group and you understand my drift. Each individual will therefore learn a different language of codes and signs in the media and then understand what they see in a different way to anyone else. Although there may be similarities, there are subtle differences too.
So, to use an example to explain, when an Arabian watches the Arabic news on SBS, they will surely understand what is being said, however logically when an Englishman tries to watch the Arabic news on SBS they won’t understand a thing. . . or will they? According to a theory i just learnt about at school called semiotic constructivism, although the Englishman won’t understand the complete picture, he will still understand the facial expression, the body language, the colour of the background, the photographs that are shown and any possible emotion in the music played on snippets of ‘live’ streaming.So although he won’t understand the full picture, he will still understand something, and put together that ‘something’ into his own individual narrative.in a similar way when twenty different people all watch neighbours, they will all understand a different ‘something’ and put together this ‘something’ into their own individual understanding of the narrative, and thus make their own new narrative [which may be subtly changed from the original]. This is because they’ve all had different parents who teach them different body language [see friend groups similar influence], different home environments full of music or art or full of not much at all which teach people about all the connected things to either music or art or whatever it is, different friend groups and thus how to relate to other people and different ways to react to people so the right way to react to things etc, different cultures so what certain symbols colours codes and sounds mean and what/how they do at certain occasions or times, different fav tv shows as a kid teaching different codes and symbols and colours and music and styles of tv that you like/don’t like and all the associations connected to these, and different artists/fav music as a kid and learning what certain sounds mean and also overall what the sound of someone’s voice means. So what the person is saying just by the sound of their voice. A lot of what i understand when foreign people speak, well international not foreign, is mostly understood through the souuuuuund of their voice. Also body language or people language, and the last bit intelligence, and the last tiny little extra bit is instinct. :]
So, each person has learnt a different way to view the world, and thus each person will speak about what they see in a different way, and therefore each person will speak their ‘own’ language.
This is why we have miscommunication and all that stuff.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend :)
all the best in every way
Britta
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