From Latin, the term “communication” (communicate) refers to the act of communicating, that is, sharing information, participating, making something common.
Thus, communication represents the social acts that involve social relationships, which corroborates its fundamental condition in human life.
Thus, communication is one of the main objects of studies in pragmatics, a science which is responsible for analyzing discourses in different communicative contexts.
First of all, we must point out that according to “Communication theory”, the basic elements that involve a communicative situation are:
- issuer: speaker, who produces (encodes) the speech (message).
- receiver: interlocutor, who receives the message and decodes it.
- Message: text content.
- Code: sign systems, eg language.
- Communication channel: means by which the message is transmitted: visual, auditory, etc.
- Environment:place where the speech takes place.
Thus, broadly speaking, communication corresponds to the effect or act of transmitting and receiving messages; in other words, it is an exchange that takes place through a language code (language), between an issuer (speaker), the one who produces the utterance, and the receiver (speaker), in charge of decoding the message transmitted.
Pragmatic Factors
You Pragmatic Factors involve the production of meanings of communicative processes, which cover the various types of texts, being classified into:
- situationality: involves the communicative situation, that is, the context in which the interaction is used.
- Intentionality: involves the communicative intentions of the person who produces the message, that is, the sender (speaker).
- Acceptability: involves the effort of the interlocutor (receiver) to understand the message produced by the speaker (sender).
- Informativity: involves the message information issued by the speaker.
- Intertextuality: involves the relationship with other texts.
To know more: Text and Intertextuality.