Human communication and inclusive communities for social development

Abstract

Engaging communities at risk of social exclusion poses a great challenge to the paradigm of social inclusion and the creation of inclusive communities. The traditional theories of functionalism and structuralism treat communication as a linear and unidirectional system in which the sender and the receiver act passively in the face of pure information phenomena. From the perspective of criticism and dialogue, other more developed theories have introduced bidirectional characteristics and the concept of interlocutors in communication, and the concept of interlocutors as a subject of interaction allows common interpersonal and sociocultural elements of each communicative situation. world. In the traditional model, language is an expression of reality, through criticism and dialogue, language builds reality, so the unit of analysis for communication is communication and interaction.

Keywords: Communication, inclusive communities, social development.