What Is Communication

Published by communicationtype, on Mar 20 2010, in the categories: types of communication


Communication is maybe the most important aspect of our lives. It is hard to even only imagine a life without communication.  Maybe it is not even possible to lead a life without it and this is the reason why even speechless people, deaf people, etc. learn to communicate in any way. In just one single day, about 70 % of our time is spent communicating with others, family, friends, etc, even with ourselves.



All the definitions of human communication have at least the following common elements like: communication is the process of transmitting ideas, information, opinions from one individual to another or from a group to another, any activity - from routine daily activities – until the complex activities help in the companies, organizations, can not be conceived without communication.

Like most of the words of a language, the verb and the noun -  “communicate” , are polysemantic, it has a plurality of meanings. Those specialists in charge with the communication domains, they found from the very first beginning a major difficulty that they are not dealing with a well determined operation but with a variety of them and is hard to say certainty to what extent resembles.

It is the basis of all relations. Life, school – knowledge, work, marriage, etc, a considerable measure of our happiness depends on the communication and on how we communicate. The better we communicate, the more likely we have success in our relationships with friends, family, or in our business life. Because we are “forced” to contact with people, we must make the others to understand us, our feelings, thoughts, everything, to be able to keep relation and to solve life situations and problems.

The communication process it is an extremely complex phenomenon, if we consider the codes variety, situations, channels and the methods of how it is produced; the human communication is using different typologies; depending on the participants number and depending on their type of relationship, there are defined the following types of the human communication: intrapersonal communication, interpersonal communication, group communication, public communication, mass communication.



The purpose of the communication is to:

–        alert others
–        inform others
–        explain something
–        entertain
–        describe
–        persuade, etc.

To describe the many meanings of the communication that we use and live with every day, it is used the following three items:

-         the form of the communication which is the way of communication as speech, writing or drawing.
-         The communication environment which is a way that combines several forms of the communication.
-         Media which is the ways of the mass communication who were established in a specific group.

The language is the code used to transmit the information; it is the communication tool. It has three forms: written language, verbal and nonverbal language.



So, what do we have to understand thru communication process?

-         a constant challenge to the social psychology
-         activity
-         satisfy the personal needs
-         the link between people, etc.
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