WHAT IS COMMUNICATION?

Some definitions of COMMUNICATIONIn its broadest perspective, communication

occurs whenever an individual assigns significance or meaning to an internal or external stimulus --Thayer

The word communication includes all of the procedures by which one mind may affect another. This, of course, involves not only written and oral speech, but also music, the pictorial arts, the theatre, the ballet and in fact all human behavior.

--Weaver

Communication does not refer to verbal, explicit and intentional transmission of messages alone. The concept of communication would include all those processes by which people influence one another. This definition is based on the premise that all actions and events have communication aspects, as soon as they are perceived by a human being.--Ruesh

Communication occurs when some environmental disturbance (a stimulus) impinges on an organism and the organism does something about it. If the stimulus is ignored by the organism, there has been no communication. –Stevens

If we get meaning from a person, an idea, an action, a painting, a building, a room, or whatever we are dealing with, we say that it communicated. –Verderber

A process of interrelated elements working together to achieve a desired outcome or goal. –Barker

The response of one human being to the symbolic behavior of another person or persons. --Adler and Rodman

Class Definition(write this and memorize it )

THE PROCESS OF SENDING AND RECEIVING MESSAGES TO ACHIEVE UNDERSTANDING.

MODEL OF COMMUNICATION

SENDER

RECEIVER

MESSAGE

CHANNEL

FEEDBACK