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(3) RECEPTORS
The author of a text must necessarily have a message to
communicate. Once the message is triggered, it does not remain
static. It travels to its intended destination, ie. its immediate
audience or readership, through sound waves or across the printed
page. From its conceptulization down to its actualization, the
message is always on the move. It must have long been lurking in
the sub-conscious mind of the author until it was consciously
captured in a moment of intense creativity. Once captured, it soon
assumes a physical (written) or non-physical (oral) shape. In
either case, the message is picked up by its intended, immediate
recipients. That is how communication occurs. No communication
occurs without a message, a code, and receptors.
Misinterpretations and, consequently, miscommunications do
often occur; the reason being attributable to differences of age,
gender, status and, above all, the cultural and educational
backgrounds of the receptors. Differences of age entail
differences of interest and experiential knowledge. The scope of
interest and the amount of experience accumulated through active
interaction on the socio-cultural level lead to the evolvement and
promotion of a peculiar insight which facilitates the reception,
interpretation, and comprehension of the emitted message. The age
of the receptor indicates the extent to which he had been exposed
to the receptor language and culture. It also indicates the volume
of the cultural-linguistic inventory which the receptor had been
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