COMMUNICATION

Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation

Introduction

This paper intends to explore the four areas of communication with the examples from the movie “Lost in Translation”. Those four areas are conflict, intercultural, nonverbal, and interpersonal.

The emphasis is on the Bob Harris, who is American and arrives at Tokyo for filming an advertisement project. His director is Japanese. There he meets a girl Charlotte, who also comes to Tokyo for a short visit with her husband from America.

Discussion

Communication Process

Communication often starts with an idea, a feeling or thought. The process of communication can be described as follows (Hybels, S. and Weaver, 2011);

When a person wants to communicate an idea, feeling or thought to another person, then that person will translate that idea into symbols and will send the message to the receiver. The receiver will then decode the message into information . This is an easy and simple way to communicate anything to any other person, but sometimes many things may go wrong. For instance, there is a little chance that the information decoded by the receiver is exactly the same idea as the sender wanted the receiver to perceive it. Feedback is necessary to check whether the information is right. An enormous number of factors influence interpersonal communication. Everyone has a different set of characteristics like expectations, attitudes, and perceptions.

Figure 1: The Communication Process

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Source: Hybels, S. and Weaver, R. (2011) Communicating Effectively

Self, Perception, and Communication -Conflict and Conflict Management

The conflict can act as a force positive or negative, so the address should not strive to make it disappear, but to eliminate those that negatively affect the efforts of the organization dedicated to achieving their goals Conflicts can be defined on the basis of the effects produced in an organization. Under this view conflicts can be functional and dysfunctional (Folger and Stutman, 2009).

The first kind of negative thinking associated with "internal" conflicts, in which a person in agony, often in itself, is experiencing an event held on his life, is not amenable to correction.

The second kind of negative thinking associated with "external" conflict, in which a person experiences a negative event held his life in the form of negative emotions: anger, resentment, anger - directed at the people around them (Cohen, 2008).

However, the most significant "education" of negative thoughts, i.e., it is to develop the ability not to allow negative thoughts to a certain conflict situations ...