Human Communication

Information about Human Communication

Human communication or Anthroposemiotics is the field dedicated to understanding how people communicate:

with themselves: intrapersonal communication
another person: interpersonal communication
within groups: group dynamics
within organizations: organizational communication
across cultures: cross-cultural communication

The study of human communication is known as anthroposemiotics.

Important figures

Types of Interpersonal Communication

This kind of communication is subdivided into dyadic communication, Public speaking, and small-group communication.
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Group dynamics is the study of groups, and also a general term for group processes. In psychology and sociology, a group is two or more individuals who are connected to each other by social relationships.
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Organizational communication, broadly speaking, is: people working together to achieve individual or collective goals. ^[1]

Discipline History

The modern field traces its lineage through business information, business communication, and early mass communication
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Cross-cultural communication (also frequently referred to as intercultural communication) is a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds endeavour to communicate.
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Dr. Wendell Johnson (April 16, 1906 – August 29, 1965) was an American psychologist, speech pathologist and author and was a proponent of General Semantics (or GS).

Stuttering contributions

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Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894, Columbia, Missouri – March 18, 1964, Stockholm Sweden) was an American theoretical and applied mathematician. He was a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering,
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Colin Cherry (1914 – 1979) was a British cognitive scientist whose main contributions were in focused auditory attention, specifically regarding the cocktail party problem.
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Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar — a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communications theorist.
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Carl Rogers

Born January 8 1902
Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
Died January 4 1987 (aged 85)
San Diego, California, U.S.
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Communication is a process that allows organisms to exchange information by several methods. Communication requires that all parties understand a common language that is exchanged with each other.
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Communication is the process of generation,transmission, or reception of messages to oneself or another entity, usually via a mutually understood set of signs. Basic topics in communication include:

Nature of communication

Main article: Communication

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For semantics in general, see .

General Semantics is an educational discipline created by Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950) during the years 1919 to 1933. General Semantics is distinct from semantics, a different subject.
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The history of communication dates back to the earliest signs of life. Communication can range from very subtle processes of exchange, to full conversations and mass communication. Human communication was revolutionized with speech about 200,000 years ago.
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Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems. It includes the study of how meaning is constructed and understood.
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Mass communication is the term used to describe the academic study of various means by which individuals and entities relay information to large segments of the population all at once through mass media.
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Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. It was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and
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