Definition of Communication

 

Communication: a process of interction and sharing of meaning, exchanging ideas, opinion or sharing of information either in the form of writing, symbols, sound or speech, trenasmitted face-to-face or via the mass media.

• Wood (2001): systemic process involving a person who interacts using specific symbols to form and interpret meaning.
• Verdeber & Verdeber (2002): process of forming and sharing meaning in informal conversation, group interaction or public speaking involving a communicator, context, message, channel, noise element and feedback.
• Gamble & Gamble (2002): process of transferring meaning either internationally or not. Gamble links experience with observed behaviour and perception regarding the bahviour
• Hybels & Weaver (2001): process of sharing ideas, information and feeling that involves speech, writing behaviour, body movement and styles.
• Trenholm (2001): viewed from 3 perspectives; psychology, social concept & pragmatic. Communication is defined as a combination of concepts to look at how people use symbols (in the form of words) to form uniformity in meaning to be shared with others.

In short, communication includes distributing, sending and delivering messages, informing, achieving uniformity, sharing and interpreting idea, persuading amd forming relationship.