pragmatic perspective

I personally feel that thinking of communication as a patterned interaction is unrealistic. To believe this, one must assume that there is only a sender and a receiver, person A and B, where one initiates conversation and the other responds. However, this is not always the case such that we must consider that no two people are alike and that very important variables are not included in this perspective such as culture and personality.

However, reading through the pragmatic perspective, I can say understand where it is coming from. Similar to a game, people partake in this social interaction and sometimes we take turns. But it is also unlike a game because sometimes when communicating, we don’t get to say anything back, we can be obliged to sit back and just listen to someone communicating to us. There are some times only senders.