Conversation – What is it all about?

10Jul10

by Christopher Schütze

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Conversations occur in our everyday life but what’s behind it?

First of all you need two or more people to have a conversation. It is the main way for people to come together, exchange information, negotiate and maintain social relations.

So if you think about it, without conversations we would have almost no social skills and it would be much harder for us to gather information. You could also say that conversations are indispensable for almost every interaction between two or more people.

From a conversation analysts point of view there are two types of conversation:

• Transactional Conversations where the expression of context is the main goal and

• Interactional Conversations with the main goal of expressing social relations and personal attitudes

But in our modern times these two types of conversations seem to fuse together into one type where people want to interact in order to have a transactional conversation. To get a taste of how conversations could look like in the future of Social Media and how to manage them watch the video below:

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