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Sunday, 15 April 2012
WHAT IS COMMUNICATION?
A gentleman orders a coffee in a crowded cafe.
The young woman in line behind him shoots a withering look at the rambunctious
toddler tugging on her coat. From the radio blares an advertisement for a
one-day sale at the mall. At a nearby table, a deaf couple signs to each other,
while a teenager in the corner busily texts a friend on his cell phone. These
situations all have one thing in common. They all involve in communication!
Communication is the
act of conveying information for the purpose of creating a shared
understanding. It’s something that humans do everyday. The word “communication”
comes from Latin word “communis”
meaning “to share,” and includes verbal, non-verbal, and electronic means of
human interaction. Scholars who study communication analyze the development of
communication skills in humans and theorize about how communication can be made
more effective.
Humans convey information through a
variety of methods like speaking, telephones, email, blogs, TV, art, hand
gestures, facial expressions, body language, and even social contexts.
Communication can occur instantaneously in closed, intimate settings or over
great periods of time in large public forums, like the Internet. However, all
forms of communication require the same basic elements of speaker or sender of
information, a message, and an audience or recipient. The sender and recipient
must also share a common language or means of understanding each other for
communication to be successful. As such, a study of communication often examines
the development and structure of language, including the mathematical language
used in computer programming.
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