Definition: Communication is the process of attempting to impart information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium; process by which we assign and convey meaning in an attempt to create shared understanding.
This process requires a vast repertoire of skills in intrapersonal and interpersonal processing, listening, observing, speaking, questioning, analyzing, and evaluating.
NoN-vErBaL (hidden meaning): physical means, such as body language, sign language, touch, eye contact, or the use of writing.
Communication is usually described along a few major dimensions: Message (what type of things are communicated), source, emisor, sender (by whom), form (in which form), channel (through which medium), destination, receiver, target or decoder (to whom), and the purpose or pragmatic aspect.
In the presence of "NOISE" on the transmission channel (air, in this case), reception and decoding of content may be faulty, and thus the speech act may not achieve the desired effect. One problem with this encode-transmit-receive-decode model is that the processes of encoding and decoding imply that the sender and receiver each possess something that functions as a code book, and that these two code books are, at the very least, similar if not identical.
You can read another interesting article by Robert Ronald
I shared about this during CG. I hope after learning more about communication, how it works, using non-verbal communicators and cutting down on mediums to prevent noise and mis-interpretation of meaning, it will help you to be a better communicator to others. :)
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