INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION IN HAROLD PINTER'S DRAMA
Interpersonal communication is critical in our daily lives and plays a vital role in establishing social interactions among people. Whenever we engage in communication with others, we seek to gain some information about them, exchange ideas or engage in a friendly conversation. Thus, the primary role of communication is to accurately convey an idea or emotion that reflects our inner thoughts. Each communication primarily involves a code or tool through which communication is materialized. The most conventional one being language which contributes to the facilitation of social interaction.
According to linguists, communication remains a complex phenomenon: it requires an aptitude for symbolism and abstraction that only Man is capable of producing and absorbing. Yet, regardless of the quantity and quality of research that has been made in the field of communication, one issue remains far from being finalized: the definition of communication. Specialized scholars seem to agree on the mechanisms that govern communication, but they are unable to adhere to a specific definition of communication.
In his book Introduction to Communication Studies, John Fiske distinguishes between the two prominent schools in the field of communication studies: the process school and the semiotic school. The first school is interested in the study of the transmission of messages whereas the second school is immersed in researching the generation of meaning. It is noteworthy that both schools share the same founding principle that communication is a social behavior.
According to John Fiske, the process school “sees communication as the transmission of messages…It sees communication as a process by which one person affects the behavior or the state of mind of another…This school tends to talk in terms of communication failure.” Then the author talks about the semiotic school: “The second school sees communication as the production and exchange of meanings…It uses terms like signification, and does not consider misunderstanding to be necessarily an evidence of communication failure.”
Basically, linguists recognize that communication involves three major components: an addresser (speaker or person who attempts to convey a message), an addressee (interlocutor or audience: the person to whom the message is conveyed) and a message (the spoken or written speech that is being conveyed). To initiate a conversation (contact), the addresser uses a code, most commonly language, to produce his message. This implies a correlation between language (speech) and communication. In fact, communication is in itself but one of the major functions of language as Marina Yaguello points out: The goal of language is to communicate. But for humans communicating is not only a mere transmission of messages. We often speak to say nothing meaningful or we say the opposite of what we really had in mind.
Accordingly, language is considered as the conventional medium of communication not only in ordinary human intercourse but also in conventional drama. In the latter, the function of language is to link the dramatis personae as well as the audience in a logical and intelligible communicative experience. 4
- The following appeared in an e-mail sent by the marketing director of the Classical Shakespeare Theatre of Bardville."Over the past ten years, there has been a 20 percent decline in the size of the average audience at Classical Shakespeare Theatre product 40
- Manned space flight is costly and dangerous. Moreover, the recent success of a series of unmanned space probes and satellites has demonstrated that a great deal of useful information can be gathered without the costs and risks associated with sending men 80
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- The best way for a society to prepare its young people for leadership in government, industry, or other fields is by instilling in them a sense of cooperation, not competition. 73
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Discourse Markers used:
['accordingly', 'also', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'really', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'well', 'whereas', 'in fact', 'as well as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.288073394495 0.240241500013 120% => OK
Verbs: 0.143119266055 0.157235817809 91% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0697247706422 0.0880659088768 79% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0385321100917 0.0497285424764 77% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0256880733945 0.0444667217837 58% => OK
Prepositions: 0.121100917431 0.12292977631 99% => OK
Participles: 0.0366972477064 0.0406280797675 90% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.57923922787 2.79330140395 128% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0330275229358 0.030933414821 107% => OK
Particles: 0.00183486238532 0.0016655270985 110% => OK
Determiners: 0.110091743119 0.0997080785238 110% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0 0.0249443105267 0% => Some modal verbs wanted.
WH_determiners: 0.0183486238532 0.0148568991511 124% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3247.0 2732.02544248 119% => OK
No of words: 489.0 452.878318584 108% => OK
Chars per words: 6.64008179959 6.0361032391 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70248278971 4.58838876751 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.421267893661 0.366273622748 115% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.353783231084 0.280924506359 126% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.292433537832 0.200843997647 146% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.200408997955 0.132149295362 152% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.57923922787 2.79330140395 128% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 219.290929204 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.513292433538 0.48968727796 105% => OK
Word variations: 60.5404906278 55.4138127331 109% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6194690265 97% => OK
Sentence length: 24.45 23.380412469 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 164.479322409 59.4972553346 276% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 162.35 141.124799967 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.45 23.380412469 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.7 0.674092028746 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.21349557522 115% => OK
Readability: 59.8283231084 51.4728631049 116% => OK
Elegance: 2.15044247788 1.64882698954 130% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172423686272 0.391690518653 44% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.111081123783 0.123202303941 90% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.079861304081 0.077325440228 103% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.539901262835 0.547984918172 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.224537083082 0.149214159877 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.075100200329 0.161403998019 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0576760633365 0.0892212321368 65% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.421425915322 0.385218514788 109% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0633652584702 0.0692045440612 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124298883378 0.275328986314 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037554291334 0.0653680567796 57% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.4325221239 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.30420353982 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88274336283 205% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 5.0 7.22455752212 69% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 3.66592920354 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.70907079646 221% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 13.5995575221 81% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.