ALL ABOUT COMMUNICATION

2. WHAT IS COMMUNICATION?
Webster defines communication as a process
by which information is exchanged between
individuals through a common system of
symbols, signs or behavior. Communications is a
process of sharing and conveying messages or
information from one person to another using
different means, medium, context, media, and
cultures.

3. NATURE OF COMMUNICATION
1. Communication is process.
Communication as a process means it is a step by
step activity and it is essentially a two-way process
that involve the active participation of both the
sender and receiver. The act or process of using
words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or
exchange information or to express your ideas,
thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else.

4.  Communication is a dynamic process which is
influenced by the communicator’s mood and
thinking.
 It is a complex process too. By complex, it
means, one message may be interpreted in
many ways by different people. In the sample
teacher explains a lesson in class 20
students. There may also become different
understanding of the lesson. That is why
there is a need to seek clarification called
feedback.

5.  2. Communication is much more of an ART
than a science.
 There is no right r wrong way to
communicate – no set of absolute rules to
be followed but thre are underlying
principles to guide us into effective
communication.

6.  3. Communicat6ion has a sender and
receiver.
 Communication occurs between two or
more people acting as the speaker or the
receiver of the message. In other words,
It is a two-way process of reaching mutual
understanding. In which participants do
not only exchange (encode-decode)
information, new, ideas and feeling but also
create and share meaning. In general,
communication is a means of connecting
people or places.

7. 4. Communication is a verbal and non-verbal.
Communication can be expressed through
written or spoken words (verbal) or actions
(non-verbal) of both spoken words and non-
verbal actions at the same time.
Communcation is not all about scenario of
receiving facts in words. It does involve
ideas and emotions the expressed trhough
signs, symbols and gestures.

8.  5. Communication is inevitable.
 Inevitability means communication is
taking place ever when someone does not
want or intend to communicate. This “ does
not want to communicate” feeling of
someone actually communicates something.

9.  6. Communication is irreversible.
 This means that what you have said can
never be unsaid. Irreversibility happens
the very minute you click the “OK” button
for a comment or post on your social media
and that it would be too late to take it
back when a lot of people have already
reacted, and commented it. The same
thing when you perhaps throw a hurting
offensive word to your enemy because of
your anger.

10.  7. Communication is Unrepeatable.
 Unrepeatability mean that an act of
communication can never be duplicated.
We may say the same thing over and over
again but the effect of what you said the
second or third or fourth time will not be
the same as the first time you said it.