Useful and Interesting Concept from Chapter 2

I think the thing that I found most useful while reading the chapter was that even as critical or judgemental people are of communications they are also just as critical and judgemental of their own analysis methodologies. While reading the text I found myself often distracted by finding logical flaws in each model, and I had to refocus my attention on the text rather than these flaws. In my opinion, each and every model described in the text was narrow enough in focus to fit itself to the communication model. But you cannot define how someone communicates by a logical analysis any better than you can separate out the emotional aspects of the speaker. The speaker is a whole person, logical to an extent, and emotional to some degree, who is shaped by every moment of their existence and perceptions of the world, flawed as they may be. I am not saying that we shouldn't reflect on our speaking methods in an effort to improve on them, just realizing that each model has its flaws. I recognize these flaws in each model, just as these rhetoricians did, and am reassured further through their diligent endeavors to define the undefinable. This is surely an arduous task, one which I am much more confident to in much more capable hands than mine own.