Creating and Using Meaning

In chapter five the author states the definition of meaning.“Meaning is a difficult concept to define or describe.”We assume when we create and transmit messages to others our meanings are always understood.What means one thing to one person may mean something very different to another person, hence, the meaning we say may not be accepted in the way we intend it to be, and this is caused by the differences on our personal histories ,our sets of experience, and ideas.Differences in meaning can often lead to miscommunication. We assume when we create and transmit messages to others our meanings are always understood. We forget that other people see the world through their own eyes, just as we see it through our own eyes. My understanding of a meaning might completely different from someone else’s understanding of the same meaning. Conveyor-belt flaw is what this flaw is called. We assume when we transmit a message to another person they will automatically understand our message. They will physically get our message but that doesn’t guarantee our meaning will be accepted the way we intended it to beThe messages contain both intended and interpreted meaning. Intended meaning is the meaning the sender has in mind when designing his message, interpreted meaning is the meaning the receiver interprets from the message, when intended and interpreted meaning match, shared meaning created.In order to create meaning the author advice us to come up with a perception, organizing, interpretation, to become aware of what we have received, to ordering and categorizing the information we received like a story, and to analyzing what our experience may mean.
The main lesson of this chapter is just sending the physical message doesn't gurantee the listener can interpret as it would be , the context and the condition really matters .