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TRADITIONAL FORMS OF COMMUNICATION ARE STILL IN USE TODAY, DESPITE THE MOST ADVANCED METHODS OF MODERN COMMUNICATION. DISCUSS.

N. P. Weerasooriya has done this for her project in Mass Communication, Aquinas University College, Sri Lanka.

Introduction

In traditional forms of communication, people learned and shred ideas, opinions and experiences in an orally transmitted manner.
Within the development of language, the capacity to communicate become more effective as such in the study of traditional communication the human language, signs and code which went in to the marketing of linguistic patterns are significant.

After the development of modern communication, such as mobile phones, computers, internet, people still use these traditional methods of communication, because of the customs and traditions that they practice in their own cultures.

And sometimes traditional communication is easier than modern methods of communication.

I hope to give some ideas of traditional communication methods that were used in the past and still remains as today’s methods of communication.

Context

Fire and smoke
Sounds of drums
Using flags
Hooting
Sounds of bells and sirens
Blowing of shells and horns
Sending message through birds and using arrows
Traditional forms of communication common to Sri Lanka.

Fire and smoke as a communication method.

The smoke signal is one of the oldest forms of long-distance communication. It is a form of visual communication used over long distance. In general, smoke signals are used to transmit news, signal danger, or gather people to a common area.
This was seen in many countries of the world where the people used them in conveying their messages. Early people use this communication method especially when they were going on hunting, inside the jungles or far away solitary places during day time. In day times they used smoke to conveying messages and at the night time they use fire, because

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