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Title: What is the title of this lecture?Speaker: Amit DhingraCreated by: (remove if same as speaker)
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Title: Basic Communication TheorySpeaker: Richard F. Taflinger
Communication
Transmission of a message from a source to a receiver
Model of Communication
SENDER RECEIVER
SENDERRECEIVER
CHANNEL
CHANNEL
Channels
Chemically
By pheremones
Visually
Visual communication
Aurally
Sounds are used by many creatures Dolphins Whales Birds Monkeys Apes People
Talking
A definition of talkingThe intricate manipulation of oral sound to convey meaning
All kinds of animals manipulate sound to convey meaning.
Are they talking?
A question of vocabulary
Birds have about 35 “words” Monkeys about 50 “words” Chimps about 300 “words” Humans (in English alone) about 750,000 words
Why this huge difference?
Why communicate at all?
To make connections with other members of your
species
The greater the need for connection, the greater
the vocabulary
What needs?
First, self-protection, also known as survival
Two ways to do that
First, Safety in Numbers
Be the biggest badass in the neighborhood
Homonids had neither numbers nor natural weapons
Human Ancestors
Humans cooperate
Other homonids don’t cooperate
Hunters cooperate
Second need --reproduction
Third Need –to bind the group together
SENDER RECEIVER
SENDERRECEIVER
CHANNEL
CHANNEL
Two kinds of definitions
Denotative The dictionary definition of the word Usually has a concrete referent
Connotative The personal definition of the word
What the word means to the individualOften has a strong emotional elementOften an abstraction rather than concrete
