- "Communication is usually defined as the transmission of information."
The ability to express one's thoughts, feelings, and needs to another person and to listen to and understand the thoughts and feelings of another person.
Verbal Communication: The use of spoken words to convey a message.
Non-Verbal Communication: The use of body language, facial expressions, and gestures to convey a message.
Active Listening: The ability to fully concentrate on what someone is saying, and reflect back their message to show understanding.
Conflict Resolution: The ability to calmly and effectively navigate disagreements or issues with others.
Empathy: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.
Trust Building: The process of creating trust and dependability in relationships.
Communication Styles: Different ways people communicate, and how to best communicate with different styles.
Boundaries: The rules and limits we set for ourselves and others in relationships.
Cultural Awareness: Understanding and respecting different cultural perspectives and communication styles.
Emotional Intelligence: The ability to recognize, understand, and manage our emotions and the emotions of others in communication.
Feedback: The process of openly and constructively providing feedback to others and receiving feedback ourselves.
Effective Questioning: The ability to ask open-ended questions that elicit meaningful responses, and to listen actively to those responses.
Active Engagement: The use of communication strategies to keep people involved and engaged in communication.
Persuasion and Influence: The ability to effectively persuade and influence others in a positive way.
Verbal Communication: This type of communication involves the use of spoken words to convey a message or information.
Non-verbal Communication: This type of communication involves the use of body language, facial expressions, eye contact, and gestures to convey a message or emotion.
Written Communication: This type of communication involves the use of written words to convey a message or information through mediums such as emails, letters, reports, memos, etc.
Visual Communication: This type of communication involves the use of images, photographs, videos, graphics, and charts to convey a message or information.
Interpersonal Communication: This type of communication happens between two or a small group of individuals, where feedback is exchanged.
Intrapersonal Communication: This type of communication happens within an individual’s mind or thought process. It involves self-talk, introspection, and analysis.
Group Communication: This type of communication involves the interaction between a larger group of individuals, where information is exchanged and decisions are made.
Public Communication: This type of communication is done in front of a larger audience, like a speech, lecture, seminar, or presentation.
Mass Communication: This type of communication involves the transmission of information through mass media like television, radio, newspapers, etc.
Cross-Cultural Communication: This type of communication involves the interaction between individuals from different cultures or nationalities.
Business Communication: This type of communication is used in an organizational structure to share information or make decisions among employers, employees, and other stakeholders of a company.
Crisis Communication: This type of communication is used in an emergency situation to share information and develop problem-solving strategies.
Technological Communication: This type of communication involves the use of technology like computers, cell phones, and the internet to exchange information.
Environmental Communication: This type of communication involves the exchange of information about environmental issues or concerns.
Legal Communication: This type of communication happens in legal discourse and refers to how lawyers or legal professionals communicate with each other or with clients.
Educational Communication: This type of communication is used to educate people in schools, colleges, and universities.
Artistic Communication: This type of communication is done through the medium of art like paintings, sculptures, music, dance, theatre, and film.
Spiritual Communication: This type of communication involves sharing and exchanging beliefs, ideas, or experiences related to spirituality, religion, or faith.
Personal Communication: This type of communication is done among friends, family, and acquaintances to share personal information, emotions, or feelings with one another.
- "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."