Manifolds of Communication: Negotiating Social, Political and Economic Constructs
Manifolds of Communication: Negotiating Social, Political and Economic Constructs

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of communication, analysing binary systems such as both the verbal and the nonverbal, objectivity and subjectivity honesty and manipulation. Social negotiation entails an economic sense of specificity, selling not only a product, but also yourself. Selling means having something in common with your buyer and, if that is not the case, you are forced to forge that bond yourself through communication, empathy, emotional and factual eloquence. The seller’s constructed message represents an important cog in the mechanism of efficient communication, yet that is sometimes prone to vulnerability. The articulated message can often be overruled by the partner of discussion who is unable to find himself or herself in what you are selling, in what you are communicating. The interlocutor may reject the necessity of admitting or recognising certain truths or limitations and reject a message based on the simple flaw that it is not subjectively self-evident. No matter how well we might describe the general qualities of the goods and services we are trying to sell, no matter how objectively and explicitly we might expound the situation, any such arguments may fall prey to platforms of disavowing in the absence of a personal functionality of language, a direct human connection.

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