Abstract:
The purpose of this research is to study the patterns of the communication between fortune-tellers; Spirit-medium, Astrologers, and Tarot fortune-tellers, and their clients. It is also a study of factors which create satisfaction to the customers by using observation and questionares methods. The research indicates that 1. There are 4 periods of the communication between the fortune-tellers and the clients 1.) preliminary introduction, 2.) fortune-telling, 3.) conversation, and 4.) the end of conversation, respectively. The research shows that in the first period, each group of fortune-tellers has their own ways of communicating depending on their individual belief, which are expressed via ritual activities. The communicating patterns for the rest of the periods, however, differ from one another since they depend on the personality and ability in perceiving of each tellers. 2. There are 2 categories of factors affecting on clients satisfaction. The first one is clients factors including attitude, expectation, numbers of receiving service, thinking process, reasoning, and personalities and characteristics of the clients. The other one is tellers factors which includes positive prophecies, accuracy, talking style, advices given by tellers, and the personalities of the fortune-tellers. 3. The satisfaction of clients can be occured during two periods of communication as of the followings, -The satisfaction during a conversation (at the beginning ) caused by evaluating results and expectation that the clients have. Emotions and feelings are factors in this process. -The satisfaction after a conversation caused by evaluating the overall result of the communication. During this period, knowledge, reasoning, and feelings are used for evaluating the communication.