- "Communication is usually defined as the transmission of information."
This topic covers the basic definition of communication, its purpose, and various models of communication.
Models of Communication: This topic covers the different ways that communication can be conceptualized and visualized, including linear models, interactive models, and transactional models.
Verbal Communication: This topic covers the use of spoken language to convey meaning, including how to be an effective speaker, listening skills, and the social and cultural aspects of language use.
Nonverbal Communication: This topic covers the use of gestures, facial expressions, body language, and other nonverbal cues to convey meaning, including how to read and interpret nonverbal signals, and how to use them effectively in communication.
Mass Communication: This topic covers the communication of messages to large audiences through various mediums, including newspapers, radio, television, and the internet, and how these media shape culture and influence society.
Interpersonal Communication: This topic covers the communication that takes place between individuals, including how to build and maintain relationships, resolve conflicts, and negotiate effectively.
Intercultural Communication: This topic covers the communication that takes place between people from different cultures, including how to recognize and appreciate cultural differences, how to avoid misunderstandings, and how to be an effective communicator in cross-cultural situations.
Organizational Communication: This topic covers the communication that takes place within organizations, including how to communicate effectively within teams, how to manage conflicts, and how to create a positive organizational culture.
Political Communication: This topic covers the communication that takes place within the political sphere, including the use of rhetoric, media influence on public opinion, and the role of communication in shaping public policy.
Health Communication: This topic covers the communication that takes place within the healthcare system, including how to communicate effectively with patients, how to promote health literacy, and how to use communication to improve public health outcomes.
- "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."