A short YouTube talk (by TJ Walker) framing communication as detective work: listeners should ask why a person said something (the purpose behind an utterance) and then examine how miscommunication arises. The excerpt presents two linked ideas—intent/purpose of speech and miscommunication—as the core topics.
One is, why did the person say that? So when someone writes a script, whether theater or film, there's a purpose why the character said that? And so in our way that we communicate, we have to be almost like detectives. Why did the person say that? And then the second part is the miscommunication.
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