week 4 question 2

The pragmatic perspective is such that follows the same as playing a game. It's an interdependent behaviors we have that soon become a pattern. It's in a way that we play off each other's reaction when we communicate. When we speak to one another with friends, when they make a certain face expresison or a certain reaction to what I said, we continue our story basing off their reactions.
In the chapter the pragmatists argue "you need to do much the same thing: understand the moves people use as they work out their relationship to one another." Each step you take into making a certain statement as crying or laughing, there is a story behind as to why, therefore we keep playing off their reactions, the more you know about the reason why, the more you understand the communication game. It is more like a game because in order to win one must strategize and keep up their toes and keep the opponent always guessing what their next move would be. The most important thing is to focus on the interaction rather than the personality. Instead of blaming each other think of what you may have said or done to make the opponent react that way. There is a reason why some may act that way. Such as relationship between boyfriends and girlfriends, most tend to blame each other because they are too stubborn to realize what the individual had done to make them feel that certain way. It's what they do to to work out the relationship then and there.
It's little different from a game because it's not the objective of winning but more of the strategy within the game and the reaction that they play off of one another. It's that moment in time that matters, where they are in a pattern to work out the problems within the "game."