Communicative Linkages:
Interacting Individuals in the Light of Human Linguistics and Social Psychology
Maciej Kielar
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
In this paper, there will be presented two different views on the analysis of the process of interpersonal communication, which will be briefly characterised at the very beginning. As the name suggests, the interpersonal communication can take place between at least two people who interact in proximity, which facilitate the immediate feedback. These two very general statements can be perceived as the most basic and the same time the most crucial conditions which must be fulfilled in order to label a communicative situation as an interpersonal one. The process of interpersonal communication can be investigated from two different perspectives. The first framework is labelled as 'human linguistics.' This theoretical concept utilises all the general principles of such 'hard sciences' as physics, chemistry, and biology, therefore, it allows the scientists to describe 'on–going' processes. This framework, with its all assumptions, is applicable to all of the situations in which we would like to describe and analyse an interaction among humans and language. On the other hand, the framework developed within realms of sociology and social psychology seems to be 'static.' It is fairly difficult, if possible at all, to render a dynamic action or a process utilising only the socio–psychological framework. What is more, this framework includes many typologies, which partially overlap or exclude each other. Different labels are utilised to name the same social phenomena. Therefore, human linguistics with its unified terminology and vast applicability seems to be a good solution for all the scientists who investigate language in relation to people.