- "Communication is usually defined as the transmission of information."
Communication is the process of exchanging information and conveying meaning between individuals or groups.
Introduction to Communication: This topic covers the basic definition of communication, its purpose, and various models of communication.
Verbal Communication: This topic focuses on the use of language, pronunciation, and articulation in communication. It also includes nonverbal communication such as tone, volume, and body language.
Written Communication: This topic covers the use of written language, including grammar, punctuation, and writing style. It includes various forms of writing such as emails, letters, and reports.
Interpersonal Communication: This topic focuses on communication between individuals or small groups. It covers communication skills such as active listening, questioning, and feedback.
Group Communication: This topic covers communication within larger groups such as teams and organizations. It includes topics such as group decision-making, conflict resolution, and leadership.
Intercultural Communication: This topic covers communication between people of different cultures. It includes topics such as cultural differences, cultural sensitivity, and cultural competence.
Public Speaking: This topic covers the art of delivering speeches or presentations to an audience. It includes topics such as speech writing, delivery techniques, and audience analysis.
Mass Communication: This topic covers communication to large audiences through mass media such as television, radio, and the internet. It includes topics such as media ethics, media effects, and media literacy.
Communication Research: This topic covers research methods used in communication studies. It includes topics such as survey research, content analysis, and experimental design.
Communication Theory: This topic covers the various theoretical frameworks used to study communication. It includes topics such as social exchange theory, social learning theory, and systems theory.
Health Communication: Focuses on using communication methods to spread awareness and create change in health practices.
Organizational Communication: Focuses on the communication patterns and practices within an organization.
Political Communication: Focuses on the communication strategies used by political actors and the impact of this on political campaigns or governance.
Advertising and Public Relations: Focuses on the creation of persuasive messages to promote or sell a product, service or idea.
Gender and Communication: Focuses on examining the impact of gender on communication patterns and practices.
New Media Communication: Focuses on the study of digital platforms and their impact on communication practices and patterns.
Rhetoric and Public Address: Focuses on the study of using language to persuade and influence others in public speaking or written communication.
Nonverbal communication: This type of communication involves the exchange of information without the use of words. Examples include facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice.
Visual communication: This type of communication involves the exchange of information through visual aids such as pictures, videos, infographics, and presentations.
Sign language: This is a visual form of communication used by people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Intrapersonal communication: This involves the communication that occurs within one's own mind, such as self-talk.
Paralinguistic communication: This type of communication involves nonverbal communication such as tone, pitch, volume, and speed of speech.
Corporate communication: This type of communication involves the communication that occurs within a company, such as between employees or between the company and its customers.
Group communication: This type of communication occurs within groups of people and is used to facilitate communication within the group.
Telecommunication: This type of communication involves the use of technology such as telephones, video conferencing, and the internet to communicate with others.
- "The precise definition of communication is disputed."
- "Many models include the idea that a source uses a coding system to express information in the form of a message." - "The source uses a channel to send the message to a receiver who has to decode it in order to understand its meaning."
- "Communication can be classified based on whether information is exchanged between humans, members of other species, or non-living entities such as computers."
- "Verbal communication involves the exchange of messages in linguistic form." - "Non-verbal communication happens without the use of a linguistic system."
- "There are many forms of non-verbal communication, for example, using body language, body position, touch, and intonation."
- "Interpersonal communication happens between distinct persons, such as greeting someone on the street or making a phone call."
- "Intrapersonal communication, on the other hand, is communication with oneself."
- "Researchers in this field often formulate additional criteria for their definition of communicative behavior." - "Example are the requirement that the behavior serves a beneficial function for natural selection and that a response to the message is observed."
- "Animal communication plays important roles for various species in the areas of courtship and mating, parent-offspring relations, social relations, navigation, self-defense, and territoriality."
- "An often-discussed example concerning navigational communication is the waggle dance used by bees to indicate to other bees where flowers are located."
- "Due to the rigid cell walls of plants, their communication often happens through chemical means rather than movement."
- "For example, plants like maple trees release so-called volatile organic compounds into the air to transmit warning signals about a herbivore attack to other plants."
- "The reason is that its purpose, as a tool, is usually some form of cooperation, which is not as common between different species."
- "For example, many flowers use symmetrical shapes and colors that stand out from their surroundings in order to signal to insects where nectar is located to attract them."
- "Communicative competence is the ability to communicate well."
- "Two central aspects are that the communicative behavior is effective, i.e. that it achieves the individual's goal, and that it is appropriate, i.e. that it follows social standards and expectations."
- "Human communication has a long history and how people exchange information has changed over time."
- "Examples are the invention of writing systems, the development of mass printing, the use of radio and television, and the invention of the internet."
- "The field of communication includes various other issues, like communicative competence and the history of communication."