Language Choice

One of the concepts that may need a farther discussion is "Improving Language Choice". (p.97)
As most of us know, "Language is a powerful tool"! We use language to influence, regulate, persuade and dominate others. Sometimes we create ideas with words and tend to believe in their truthiness although they are only words, and may have no hold in reality.

Nevertheless, sometimes "we mean more than we say and say less than we mean". So, both as transmitters and as receiver we should be aware of the language choices that we make. As it stated on page 98:

Making language choices is no simple matter. It requires sensitivity to others, a clear sense of one's own communicative intent, a great deal of social knowledge, and an overall understanding of the communication process.

Who is Building? What?

Too many interesting concepts to choose from, but I did it. I picked the concept that suggests that we "construct our worlds through communication". We understand the world based on the way we communicate with others.  If we accept this idea, than we must also realize that it is only to our benefits to communicate responsiblly . In other words, we need to be aware to the things we and others say and to the ways in which we communicate with others.

After all, if communication is the act of world's construction, than we must be aware that with communication we build something that is "larger and more lasting than we realize". (p.29) this is even farther emphasizing the importance of research and the study of how communication affects our world and us as individual. Individuals, as part of the world, are being created through communication. It is clear that our beliefs and actions reflect the informations that we comunicate and that is being communicated to us.

Experimental Research

 One of the research methods that I find to be very interesting, and also appears as fun to conduct is Experimental Research. I think that the part that I like the most about it is the "hands on" testing that can be design to answer very specific questions. The information that is being gathered through this kind of research can serve as a basis, factual information for the construction of theories. Another reason that I find it interesting is the direct relation of this type of research to people's behavior.

One of the questions that can be researched is: do people's beliefs are based mostly on assumptions or on facts? To answer this question one may use a mixed of research methods that involve Rhetorical Criticism for the purpose of studying the topic and examine the strategies. A survey research can also be used for collecting data for analyzing, and also experimental research as well for collecting data.