THE REASONS OF MISCOMMUNICATION: AN ATTEMPT OF GENERAL THEORY
The paper presents a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to causes of miscommunication. One level of description is dedicated to the actual process of producing and comprehending a message. Second level takes into account speakers and recipients mental worlds definitely influencing the process. At the third level attention is paid to recipient design, which is decisive for successfulness of communication. The significance of different factors heavily depends on the discourse type (genre) we are dealing with.