{"id":60414,"date":"2024-10-08T20:58:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T18:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=60414"},"modified":"2024-10-10T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:44:00","slug":"four-or-six-communication-gestures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/four-or-six-communication-gestures\/","title":{"rendered":"Four or Six Communication Gestures?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;The traffic light is green!&#8221; says the passenger to the driver. Friedemann Schulz von Thun uses this example in his book <em>Miteinander reden<\/em> [Talking to each other] to explain his four-sided communication model. According to this model, every message has four facets or sides: \u201cfactual,\u201d \u201cappeal,\u201d \u201cself-disclosure,\u201d and \u201crelational\u201d\u2014although they might not all have the same emphasis. On the factual level, it\u2019s merely information: the traffic light is now green. If there is some insistence in the passenger\u2019s voice, then it\u2019s an appeal to the driver to start driving. The message can also be self-revelatory: &#8220;I&#8217;m in a hurry!&#8221; Or it can point to the relationship between sender and receiver: &#8220;I drive better than you!&#8221; Conflicts arise when the sender and receiver of the message assess the factual, appeal, self-disclosure, and relational facets differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rudolf Steiner&#8217;s classification of six language gestures is quite similar to this model. What the <em>Dramatic Course<\/em> calls &#8220;effecting&#8221; is here the appeal; what Steiner calls &#8220;centering&#8221; is Schulz von Thun&#8217;s self-disclosure. The factual level does not appear in Rudolf Steiner&#8217;s work, presumably because he has stage language in mind, where, apart from the phrase &#8220;intermission,\u201d it is rarely about pure information. The two nuances of language in the <em>Dramatic Course,<\/em> &#8220;seeking&#8221; and &#8220;throwing away,&#8221; relate to the relationship level in Schulz von Thun\u2014sometimes connecting, sometimes separating. What remains unique to Rudolf Steiner are &#8220;turning towards&#8221; and &#8220;distancing.\u201d These lead to the processual: do you find expression in your speech, or do you fall silent? Taking both systems together, Schulz von Thun\u2019s and Steiner\u2019s, we get seven forms of speech. Seven is the number of time, and nothing leads us into time like language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation <\/strong>Laura Liska<br><strong>Forms <\/strong>by Ella Lapointe, 2024. Vectorized Ink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The traffic light is green!&#8221; says the passenger to the driver. Friedemann Schulz von Thun uses this example in his book Miteinander reden [Talking to each other] to explain his four-sided communication model. According to this model, every message has four facets or sides: \u201cfactual,\u201d \u201cappeal,\u201d \u201cself-disclosure,\u201d and \u201crelational\u201d\u2014although they might not all have the same emphasis. On the factual level, it\u2019s merely information: the traffic light is now green. If there is some insistence in the passenger\u2019s voice, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":59465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8845],"tags":[11539,11563,8819],"class_list":["post-60414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-social","tag-ausgabe-33-34-2024-en","tag-english-issue-41-2024","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}