COMS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chemical Element, Body Language, Principle Of Compositionality
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Definition of communication: how we receive, perceive, interact, express our thoughts, feelings, ideas, information, body language plays a vital role in expressing our views, environment, the circumstance influences the way we communicate. Our social background and our thoughts impact the way we communicate: the media; how we learn new information, communication is a systematic process when individuals contact with each other for meaningful interpretation, symbols: We use particular words, motives, objects to symbolize. Why do we study communication: how we view our selves. Personal impact: how we view ourselves is really important. The mother patting the child to stop crying, is also a form of communication: without communication, the mysteries of life would be hard to unravel. In reality, communication is what makes the world go around. A kind of life giving elixir and it means to give life to symbols, words and relationships. How we mold our own image for other peoples.