The sentence I chose was actually a quote by Don Ihde from
the textbook, Communication: A Critical/
Cultural Introduction (2015), written by John T. Warren and Deanna L.
Fassett. Chapter 4.
“I do not merely hear with my ears, I hear with my whole
body. My ears are at best the focal organs of hearing.” –Don Ihde (pg.67)
The reason why I chose this quote was because it really made
me think about how we listen to things, especially things that we find more
important than other things. When someone is talking, just because you open
your ears to listening to what they are saying doesn’t mean you are actually
listening. I love the part in the quote where he says he hears with his whole
body. I think it is important to not only listen but to show interest also, to
tie yourself into more on what they are saying. For example, I can listen and
hear what my friends say when I am busy on my phone or on my laptop. I can hear
what they are saying but I am not giving them my full attention because I am
pre occupied, I still respond to what they are saying but the interest doesn’t
seem like it’s all the way there. If I were to close my laptop or put my phone
away and show more interest with my eyes on who is talking, I would be
listening and hearing with my whole body.
When we are listening, we shouldn’t think of it as active or
passive, we all can listen to something or someone but what are we actually
hearing?
Are we choosing to hear what we want or are we digging
deeper to hear what they or someone is actually trying to say?
Ingrid Monson (2007) introduced perceptual agency which is
the way we think about our sensory experiences shaped by our individual
practices. It is defined as the conscious focusing of sensory attention that
can yield differing experiences of the same event (P.S37). Perceptual agency is
important because it is how we shift our focus as listeners in which it can
create different experiences for ourselves.
https://web.stanford.edu/group/brainwaves/2009/MonsonSeeingHearingAgency.pdf
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