Pragmatic Perspective- Week 3

The pragmatic perspective is the interaction between two people conceptualized as a game.  Every answer, or question, or even non-communicative feature, needs a response from the other party in order to keep the conversation moving.  To think of communication as a patterned interaction does make sense, but not entirely.  For every action, there is a reaction, yes, but that statement is not always true.  You cannot base the entirety form of communication without incorporating personality, attitudes, beliefs, or even details of why a conversation is taking place.  I do see how communication is a patterned interaction because, like our text states, " we cannot not communicate".  The pragmatic perspective cannot see into the future of what the opposing party will say or do, yet they can reveal an assumption that a reaction will occur in a likelihood related matter.  Communication is like a game, because each opponent participates, and thus bases his or her "move" on the other party.  However, communication is not like a game because not all "moves" can be based on what the opponent communicated.  All aspects of why we say, what we say, tie into communication, for it is not predictable or completely underlined of what each player will or will not do.  A player moves sometimes cannot be based on what the other party communicated, outside references, sources, or distractions of the conversation are all important variables as well.