Do we have it?

Self-talk involves only one voice talking to itself. For inner dialogue, several voices linked to different positions take turns in a form of imaginary interaction, says ■Wikipedia.
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Examples of internal communication are thinking to oneself I’ll do better next time after having made a mistake or having an imaginary conversation with one’s boss because one intends to leave work early.

If you get yourself an entire “internal agency” for talk about mistakes, you might start making those just to keep up, whereas you are anyway on your own, doing in your head for your boss during that imaginary conversation.
■Agency: The capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. — Lovely! I like this sense really much.

Internal communication may be prompted internally or occur as a response to changes in the environment. The term “autocommunication” is sometimes used as a synonym.

The olden Greek ■autos says you can do something yourself if you like, that is, no prompts belong, internally or externally. Precious those olden words are.

Internal communication central type happens purely internally as an exchange within one’s mind. (Other types) are mediated through external means, like when writing a diary or a shopping list for oneself.

The “pure interior” would be somewhere in the head, because we have “exchanges”, and things could not be in one and the same place to get exchanged. Consequently, within one mind, we get two types; the pure and that which does not belong with the pure, for exchanges.

Of course, it is only if we are sorted in some such ways, that we have the pure and the other, for exchanges. Well, do we have it?

For inner dialogue, several voices linked to different positions take turns in a form of imaginary interaction.

A dialogue is talk between two people. This is why it is called dialogue, the dia- tells the thing is for two. Here, several voices linked to different positions would take turns. It is… a lobby, if we are sorted in some such ways, of course.

Many internal communication models hold that it starts with the perception and interpretation of internal and external stimuli or cues. Later steps involve the symbolic encoding of a message.

This here is like an entire procedure: we have the perception, the interpretation, and the symbolic encoding. People would do things after such fashions in the Congress, except encoding messages from internal and external stimuli.

Some models identify the same self as sender and receiver; others as an exchange between different parts of the self or between different selves belonging to the same person.

How about we take a walk. The road does not interact with the feet; it just is there. Trees, greens, houses, they all, just the same, are there. Other people might be walking too, but usually no one bumps into another, and thus the people are where they are.
It would be odd to think about the feet as receiving or sending messages, or about own self, that we become someone else if we take a turn, or look at the other side of the road.

Positive and negative feedback received from other people affects how a person talks to themself.

Feedback is only what we ask for. Imagine people started coming up one to another in the street and commenting, on the looks, walks and all.
I imagine you talk to yourself when you’re distressed (I don’t, not everybody does, I explain a bit later); then, why would you have asked for it?

Intrapersonal communication is involved in interpreting messages received from others; an alternative is to hold that intrapersonal communication is an internalized version of interpersonal communication.

Now, with those people having come up one to another, when we listen to someone talking, we do not talk to ourselves in thought; as well, we do not “internalize” what they say, as human brains are not recording devices.
One Adler tried environmental theories about the human psyche. I know about those theories and still, associate the name primarily with a typewriter, because I had one some years ago and it was useful. Are we going to “internalize” the talk in the video, or just think?

Now I lay out what I have promised to lay out. Silent thought is the greatest, for thinking, learning, and memory. It occurs naturally and early in multilingual children. Most probably it is because the brain cannot think in different language forms at the same time, and it cannot switch them off either, so it develops the “silent paths”. From my introspection, those paths have something like “trace language forms” that make it easy for the brain to work one language one time, and another at another time.

It is probably never too late to learn. The book here has exercises.

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