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the production and interpretation of the expressions. This means that
linguistic expressions are placed in a context that is multimodal and
influenced by a particular activity and culture (see Section 4, below).
4. Functions and Processes Involved in Communication
To communicate involves participating in a number of processes that
need to be managed so that the actions and behavior in communication
can be adapted successfully in order to reach the goals of communication.
We have therefore evolved several mechanisms for communication
management (CM). Two of the most important of these are (Allwood,
2008b):
1. Interactive Communication Management (ICM)
2. Own Communication Management (OCM)
Interactive Communication Management involves means for
managing the interaction in communication, while Own Communication
Management involves ways of managing your own contributions
to communication. Both of these types of communication have
subsystems.
Interactive Communication Management, for example
- Turn management
- Feedback
- Sequencing
Own Communication Management, for example
- Mechanisms for choice and planning
- Mechanisms for change
Besides mechanisms for managing communication, there are also
the features of the message that is managed. We will call this the Main
Message (MM) to differentiate it from the auxiliary messages involved
in Communication Management.
An overview of the structure and functions of Human
Communication is given in Table 1.
The main message is the reason a contribution to communication
was made and can contain communicative acts (for instance, statements,
questions and requests), referential content and expressed attitudes
that are to be shared with the interlocutor. In relation to the aspects of
content mentioned above at the end of Section 3, the communicative
acts relate to conative (intention and will) aspects, the referential
content relates to factual content and the expressed attitudes relate to
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