Definitions of Communication

• ·         Communication is the mechanism through which human relations exist and develop – all the symbols of the mind, together with the means of conveying them through space and preserving them in time.   [Charles Cooley – 1909]
• ·         Communication is a social – psychological process by which one individual is able to assume, in some sense and to some degree, the attitudes and the point of view of another.    [Robert E.Park - 1922]
• ·         Society is a network of relations maintained chiefly by communication. Every cultural pattern and every single act explicit manner.   [Edward Sapir - 1935]
• ·         Communication is the discriminatory response of an organism to a stimulus.    [stevenes – 1950]
• ·         Communication is all those processes by which people influence one another.     [jurgen Ruesch – 1950]
• ·         Communication means a sharing of elements of behavior of modes of life, by the existence of sets of rules….It is essentially a social affair.    [Collin Cherry – 1953]
• ·         Communication is the verbal interchange of thoughts or ideas.    [hobbon – 1954]
• ·         Communication is the interaction thought message.    [George Gerbnar – 1956]
• ·         In the most general sense, we have communication wherever one system, a sourse, influence another, the destination, by manipulation of alternative symbols, which can be transmitted over the channel connecting them.     [Osgood et al – 1957]
• ·         Communication is the means of exchange and the measure of value in social life.   [Daniel Lerner – 1958]
• ·         Communication has as its central interest those behavioral siyuations in which a source transmits a message to a receiver with conscious intent to affect the latter’s behavior.      [miller – 1966]
• ·         Communication may be defined as social interaction through messages.     [gerbner – 1967]
• ·         Communication is a process in which participants create and share information with one another in order to reach mutual understanding.     [evarett M. Rogers – 1972]
• ·         Communication is the purposeful transactional process by which one person, through the use of audible and visible symbols, engenders meanings in the minds of his listeners.    [martin et Al – 1974]
• ·         Communication is the sending of meaningful message from one person to another.     [Dennis mcquail – 1975]