BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie

As can be seen human communication is understood in various
manners. This diversity is the result of communication complexity as well
as its being a subject - matter of a very broad constituency of disciplines
that includes Rhetoric, Journalism, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology,
and Semiotics, and others. Because many fields of study dedicate a portion
of attention to communication, when speaking about communication it is
very important to be sure about what aspects of communication one is
speaking about.
Nevertheless beyond the diversity in understand or defining of
communication there are some common accepted things. All of humans
communicate. Communication occurs to all areas of life: home, school,
community, work, and beyond. Communication includes acts or interacts
that confer knowledge and experiences, share emotion, give advice and
commands, and ask questions. Communication requires a vast repertoire
of skills in intrapersonal and interpersonal processing such as listening,
observing, speaking, questioning, analyzing, and evaluating.
Communication requires skills in utilization of technique of encoding and
decoding, that is grammatical rules but also knowledge about culture,
habits, behavioral rules etc. Communication requires physical and
psychological capability to send and receive information, because the
efficiency in information interchanging depends in many respects on such
factor as anxiety, fatigue, boring, annoyance, and interest. Human
communication happened at many levels (i.e. verbal, nonverbal, paraverbal,
extra-verbal) take many forms (i.e. intrapersonal, interpersonal,
social mediated), in one of the various manners (i.e. verbal presentation,
letter, through movements, sounds, reactions, physical changes, gestures,
languages, breath, etc).
4.2. The Communication Process
In order to clarify what is communication and how does it occur
were created a lot of theoretical models of communication. The Shannon–
Weaver model of communication has been called the "mother of all
models”. This model was widely adopted into the social science fields,
such as education, organizational analysis, psychology, etc.
Shannon–Weaver model of communication
In 1949, the American engineer Shannon elaborated this model
with intention to explain what basically happens in communication. He
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