Communication

             Communication is the process of creating or sharing meaning in informal conversation, group interaction, or public speaking. The process includes participants, context, messages, channels, presence or absence of noise, and feedback. In communication the people who communicate are called participants. The are two types of participants. There are the receivers and the senders. As the senders, they retrieve the information and attempt to communicate with others whereas the receivers, they process the information and decide how to react to it. In communication, there are different kind of context: Physical, Social, Historical, and Psychological, and cultural. When talking about the physical context, it is talking about the location, environmental, conditions, temperature, lightning, and noise level. The social context is the purpose of the event as well as the existent relationships between and among the participants. The historical context includes the background provided by previous communication episodes between the participants. Another type of context is the Psychological context which includes the moods and feelings each person brings to communication. The last type context that is used in communication is cultural context which are the beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, social hierarchies, religion, notions of time, and roles of a group of people.
             Communication is all about receiving and sending messages which include the elements of meaning, symbols, encoding and decoding, and organization. Where the communication is taken place influences what and how messages are formed, and understood. By definition, meaning is the ideas and feelings that exist in your mind. The next element of messages are symbols which are words and sounds and actions that represent specific content meaning. For example facial expressions are symbols. We use facial expressions to show how we feel nonverbally. Another element of messages is enc...

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