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    Communication is a complex process that is difficult to define precisely. It involves the transmission of information from a sender to a receiver through various channels. While early models of communication focused on its linear nature, later models recognize communication as a dynamic, reciprocal process of exchanging both verbal and nonverbal messages to create shared meaning between participants. Different contexts of communication have also been studied, including rhetoric, interpersonal interactions, organizational settings, and healthcare. Overall, communication is understood as both a means of sharing existing ideas but also as a primary process that shapes social reality itself.

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    Communication is a complex process that is difficult to define precisely. It involves the transmission of information from a sender to a receiver through various channels. While early models of communication focused on its linear nature, later models recognize communication as a dynamic, reciprocal process of exchanging both verbal and nonverbal messages to create shared meaning between participants. Different contexts of communication have also been studied, including rhetoric, interpersonal interactions, organizational settings, and healthcare. Overall, communication is understood as both a means of sharing existing ideas but also as a primary process that shapes social reality itself.

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    Communication is a complex process that is difficult to define precisely. It involves the transmission of information from a sender to a receiver through various channels. While early models of communication focused on its linear nature, later models recognize communication as a dynamic, reciprocal process of exchanging both verbal and nonverbal messages to create shared meaning between participants. Different contexts of communication have also been studied, including rhetoric, interpersonal interactions, organizational settings, and healthcare. Overall, communication is understood as both a means of sharing existing ideas but also as a primary process that shapes social reality itself.

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    What is Communication?

    It’s quite difficult to define the word “communication” because of 2 reasons. First one is that this
    word is very common. “Communication is one of the most overworked terms in the English lesson”
    F. Dance (journalist). Culture, community. If we asked a hundred people what Communication is,
    we will receive hundred different answers.

    Communication comes from “communicare” (Latin) that means to share, to make something in
    common.

    Communication is the process by which people transmit information, share verbal and nonverbal
    messages and create meaning with each other.

    Shannon’s and Weaver’s model of Communication:

    Information source (sender) has a message that he transmits through the channel. Then this signal
    is received by a receiver and its final destination. There are also Noise Source that can disturb a
    process of communication.

    According to this model meaning “contained” in the words. And such phenomenon like a feedback
    isn’t contained in Shannon’s model. This model is linear and isn’t designed to express face-to-face
    communication.

    Barnlund’s Transactional Model of Communication:

    For him communication was dynamic, on-going, back-and-forth simultaneous exchange between
    people. Each member of the communication is a sender and a receiver at the same time.

    His model contains verbal, nonverbal signals and a feedback.

    Meaning exists in the heads (minds) of people, when members of the communication try to
    interpret what their opponent says and means. That is why two people can hear one and the same
    message but interpret it completely different.

    Important here - to share meaning.

    Craig’s Constitutive Approach:

    Communication isn’t a secondary phenomenon what happens after our views in our hand, after the
    culture etc. Communication is the primary constitutive process that explains all these other
    factors.

    Important here that we create meaning and ideas in the process of communication. We don’t deal
    with already existing meanings or ideas. The whole social reality is the product, an outcome of
    communication.

    Areas of Communication:

    Rhetoric is about how speaker can create and share artfully with an audience fror maximum
    persuasiveness (убедительность). The area of rhetoric study is: political speeches, argumentation,
    freedom of expression etc.
    Interpersonal Communication looks at one on one conversations and relationships, and
    focuses on face to face interaction (friendships, romantic relationships and family).

    Basic levels – active listening skills, conflict resolution (разрешение конфликта), stages of
    relationship development.

    Interpersonal Communication looks also how small things, small changes in communication can
    influence our relationship, can lead to big changes.

    Organizational Communication – communication that happens in and around the workplace.

    Here you can study different leadership styles, workplace culture, communication proce3ss
    through both formal and informal networks.

    Subfield of Organizational Communicational area: crisis communication, training and


    development, professional communication skills.

    Health Communication – how communication in healthcare settings is really important,


    because it can directly impact issues like how quickly patients recover, how we communicate risks
    and how patients and families talk about illness in either helpful or harmful ways. It’s about the
    way the quality of communication influences our health and well being.

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