he Narrative Paradigm Theory. He says people are narrative beings who "experience and comprehend life as a series of ongoing narratives, as conflicts, characters, beginnings, middles and ends," (Griffin 322). Sending and encoding is about finding the way to transmit the information, emotions or ideas that can be best understood by the receiver. Films and other visual images lend themselves to this story-telling ability that Fisher says is a good way to bring understanding to people.
             Symbols are the words, pictures, figures or whatever medium is used to express the sender's point of view. The most common symbol of communication is language. Language has often been interpreted in the narrow sense of grammar, phon
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