purcom authors

Question 1

-a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior

Answer 1

Webster

Question 2

is an exchange of facts, ideas, opinions or emotions by two or more persons

Answer 2

(W.H. Newman and C.F. Sumer Jr.,)

Question 3

is a process of sharing and conveying messages or information from one person to another within and across channels, contexts, media, and cultures

Answer 3

(McCornack, 2014)

Question 4

• is the process by which information is transmitted between individuals or organizations so that an understanding response results

Thus: Communication is Transmission of information + Reception + understanding = Response.

Answer 4

(Peter Little)

Question 5

is an exchange of facts, ideas, opinions or emotions by two or more people

• • Communication is a two-way activity. There is a communicator and the receiver of communication
• Thus: Communication = Action + Reaction + Interaction

Answer 5

(Koontz and 0’ Donnell)

Question 6

-is the sum of all the things one person does; when he wants to create understanding in the mind of another. It involves a systematic and continuous process of telling, listening and understanding

Answer 6

(Allen Louis)

Question 7

-refers to a special kind of patterning: a patterning which is expressed in symbolic form.” For communication to take place between or among people, two requirements must be met:

(1) a symbolic system must be shared by the people involved (we need to speak the same language or jargon or dialects) and

(2) the associations between the symbols and their referents must be shared

Answer 7

(M. T. Myers and G.E. Myers)