Monday, December 1, 2008
Week 15 #1
In chapter 36, Griffin mentions that communication is motivation and communication needs motivation. Motivation is that " needs and desires that drive or draw us to think, feel, and act as we do." ( Griffin, E. 2008), ( P 472). Motivation includes social exchange theory that people can see it when people will become more vulnerable in their depth and breadth of self-disclosure; need for affiliation is that human needs support and is scared to be isolated from other; need for achievement is that people want to be successful by setting goal, identity alternatives, and evaluatating the achievement; need for control is that people are controled by powerful group, and the powerful group has the greatest voice; need to reduce uncertainty is to gain knowledge and create people`s understanding. People like to discover information when they meet others in the first place; and Burke suggests that need to reduce anxiety to reinforce people`s existing beliefs, seek social support.
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I suspect part of the emphasis on motivation in communication theories is that individuals want to know what causes others to say and do things. Generally, humans believe in rationality--that there is a reason for why things are the way they are. So communication scholars develop theories that help explain the "why" of specific kinds and types of communicative behaviors. Yet human behavior can be quite unpredictable. It may be our need for identifying causality that leads scholars to try and determine communicators' motivations.
This common thread is about our basic drive as social beings to relate to other people. Everyone wants to feel that they belong and are a part of something I think this plays a role in our motivation to. In the uncertainty reduction theory mentioned the motivation of communication is to reduce uncertainty and to gain a better understanding of the person you are relating to.
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