Writing as a Communicative Activity

To write we use language. As an attribute of man, it is a set of articulated sounds with which the members of human groups communicate. Bram defines it more scientifically: "It is a system of arbitrary vowel symbols, with the help of which the members of a group act among themselves. social. "(They are symbols and not signs, since in the latter the relationship with the represented thing is self-evident and natural, as not in symbols: they derive from the consensus of a group or from a social convention.) The set of these symbols and their relationships is called language. The "tongue in action" is called speech. The language name is given to the same language referring to a nation or region, or to particular ways of speaking.
Language essentially fulfills two functions in man: it serves to express himself and to communicate with others; therefore, it has an individual mission and a social one.

Its communicative role makes language the highest attribute of man as a social being.
Communicating is "doing, participating in what one has to another" and also "discovering, manifesting or making something known". The act of communication obviously supposes these elements: a sender or producer ', a receiver and a thing communicated. In verbal communication, language — oral or written — is the instrument used so that what is communicated — the message — goes from the producer to the receiver.

The process is carried out as follows:
The ISSUER or encryptor (speaker or writer):
a) He internally elaborates the message that he will communicate, guided by a purpose (thinks, selects, hierarchizes, decides how to express himself).
b) Encrypts the message using a code, which is language.
c) Expresses the message, using oral (phonation) or written language
(spelling).
The RECEIVER or decryptor (listener or reader):
a) Capture the message by hearing (hearing) or sight (reading).
b) Decipher the message, reproducing inside the sender's intention, through understanding.
c) Respond in some way to the message received.
A perfect process of verbal communication requires that the sender and the receiver share in certain cultural guidelines and in the use of the idiomatic system used. This means the following: the message must be encrypted and expressed by means of a code (symbols of the language) of which significant elements are used, with a specific intention. For the listener or reader to understand the message, he must recreate the sender's contents of consciousness and identify with his intention.
The ideal communication would produce in the receiver an exact copy of what the sender thought, felt and wanted to say. It never happens in reality with such rigor. There are interferences of greater or lesser validity that prevent the perfection of the process: they can be mental or physical, personal or environmental. These interferences that obscure the clarity of the message are called, for that reason, the noise or haze effect. They have been the object of meticulous studies to determine the value of their incidence and to establish the limits of their acceptance, by means of indices. They occur both in the work of the sender and the receiver, for the most diverse reasons (ignorance, confusion, darkness, distraction, poor audibility or legibility, etc.).
In summary, the process of verbal communication can be seen in Figure 1.