The limits of the human attention span can interfere with listening, but listeners and speakers can use strategies to prevent this interference. Whether or not these concerns are well founded, you have probably noticed that even when your attention is “glued” to something in which you are deeply interested, every now and then you pause to do something else, such as getting a drink of water, stretching, or looking out the window. More recently, researchers have engaged in an ongoing debate over whether Internet use is detrimental to attention span (Carr, 2010). In his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education professor Neil Postman argued that modern audiences have lost the ability to sustain attention to a message (Postman, 1985). For instance, if someone is said to be “flexible with the truth,” it might take us a moment to understand that the speaker means this person sometimes lies.Ī person can only maintain focused attention for a finite length of time. Euphemism is diplomatic language used for delivering unpleasant information. Another example of semantic noise is euphemism. Later, the author found out that the speaker was using the word “sweeper” to refer to a vacuum cleaner however, in the meantime, her listening was hurt by her inability to understand what the speaker meant. The author was confused, as she did not see how a broom would be effective in cleaning carpeting. One of the authors was listening to a speaker who mentioned using a sweeper to clean carpeting. While you are struggling with a word interpretation, you are distracted from listening to the rest of the message. While you are attempting to understand a particular word or phrase, the speaker continues to present the message. Therefore the extreme punishment.Semantic noise occurs when a receiver experiences confusion over the meaning of a source’s word choice. Your unacceptable thoughts may have contaminated other generations who were too close to you. Your family would be damned by the politically correct for the next three succeeding generations.
But usually your punishment was to be sent to the gulags. The communist party god may forgive you, and let you go. Make sure you swear that you will never ever entertain a thought that is counter to the prevailing thoughts. Make sure you curse yourself and beg and please for forgiveness from the “proletariat” and the infallible communist party. No matter the charge was laid and you were automatically guilty. Or maybe you just ticked off the wrong person. Or maybe you didn’t make your quota on your work team.
They came up with these charges because someone heard you complain that the government made mistakes. You would be subjected to “criticism/self criticism” time: they would criticize you and you were expected to agree with the mob and criticize yourself. They would scream at you that you were a “running dog of capitalism” or that you were an “imperialist” or that you were “rightist”. Of course your relatives and neighbors would join in, because they would not want to fall into disfavor with the politically correct mob. There you and others equally accused of imaginary crimes were screamed at (and beaten) by the Red Guard. If the Red Guard (the youthful fans of Chairman Mao who believed in his infallibility) thought that you were “counterrevolutionary” or that you were not radical enough, they would surround your house and drag you out into the town square. During the Cultural Revolution of Communist China (1966-1976), a favorite tactic of Mao’s fanatical followers was the “struggle session”.
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