Application of Watzlawick’s axioms to conversation

Studienarbeit , 2008 , 4 Seiten , Note: 1,2

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Application of Watzlawick’s axioms to a conversation
Check the websites of your news-channel or go to www.youtube.com. Look for any short video of a conversation in your own language and place it on blackboard. Write down in a few words what they are talking about and try to apply Watzlawick’s axioms to the conversation (not more than 500 words).

Table of Contents

• Abstract Interview about financial crisis
• Watzlawick's 5 Axioms of Communication
• One Cannot Not Communicate
• Messages Have Both Content and Relational Meaning
• The meaning of Messages Depends on its Punctuation
• Messages Include Both Digital and Analogic Coding
• A Transaction is Either Symmetrical or Complementary

Objectives and Key Themes

This text aims to analyze a short interview between the mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, and a moderator, Werner Sonne, regarding the German government's response to the financial crisis. The text examines the interview through the lens of Watzlawick's Axioms of Communication, demonstrating how communication dynamics can be analyzed to understand the interactions between the participants.

• The German government's response to the financial crisis
• The division of responsibilities between the federal government and the federal states
• The communication dynamics between the interviewer and the interviewee
• The application of Watzlawick's Axioms of Communication to real-world interactions
• The role of nonverbal communication in conveying meaning

Chapter Summaries

• Abstract Interview about financial crisis: This section provides a summary of the interview between Wowereit and Sonne. It highlights the key issue under discussion, namely the financial crisis and the proposed bill to aid the banking sector. The section also focuses on Wowereit's concerns regarding the bill's allocation of financial burden to the federal states.
• Watzlawick's 5 Axioms of Communication: This section introduces Watzlawick's five Axioms of Communication and provides detailed explanations of how each axiom can be applied to the interview. The author examines both verbal and nonverbal communication, analyzing the content and relational meaning of the interaction. The focus is on demonstrating the effectiveness of the axioms in revealing the underlying dynamics of the conversation.

Keywords

This text focuses on the following keywords: German financial crisis, communication, Watzlawick's Axioms, nonverbal communication, federal government, federal states, content, relational meaning, symmetrical and complementary transactions.

• Hochschule: Freie Universität Berlin (Center for Global Politics)
• Veranstaltung: Intercultural Communication
• Note: 1,2
• Autor: Natalie Züfle (Autor:in)
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
• Seiten: 4
• Katalognummer: V180069
• ISBN (eBook): 9783656026457
• Sprache: Englisch
• Schlagworte: intercultural communication, Watzlawick, axioms of communication