-Any act by which one person gives to or receives from another person information about that person's needs, desires, perceptions, knowledge, or affective states. Communication may be intentional or unintentional, may involve conventional or unconventional signals, may take linguistic or nonlinguistic forms, and may occur through spoken or other modes.
-Two-way process of reaching mutual understanding, in which participants not only exchange (encode-decode) information, news, ideas and feelings but also create and share meaning
The Cycle of Communication: -The communication process involves a series of steps and is cyclical in nature. This makes the process two-way whrere the message is sent by one party, received and responded by the other party.In case the second party receives the message but does not respond,this will leave the communication cycle incomplete and in order to complete the cycle feedback from the recipient will be necessary. Sender:
The process starts with the first component known as sender or encoder. The sender is a person who has a need or impulse to communicate his/her feelings,ideas,emotions or exchange information. The sender can use one or more than one medium to relay his/her message.
Message:
Message is the core ideas that the sender wishes to communicate.Following an impulse to coomnicate, the sender will encode the