Human Communication
Definition of human communication
Human Communication is giving, receiving or exchanging ideas, information, signals or messages through appropriate media, enabling individuals or groups to persuade, to seek information, to give information or to express emotions.
This broad definition includes body-language, skills of speaking and writing. It outlines the objectives of communication. It emphasizes listening as an important aspect of communication.
Forms of human communication
There are various forms in communication like intrapersonal communication, interpersonal communication, group communication and mass communication. Mass communication plays a vital role because it reaches a very large number of audiences.
Intrapersonal communication is a communication which happens yourself. Here both source(sender) and receiver is only one, so the feedback works without any interruption. For example, a person can communicate himself or herself through pain, thinking, feelings and emotion, etc.
Intrapersonal communication
Interpersonal communication is to convey information face to face between two or more persons, or through some simple non-mass media, such as telephone and letters. In the interpersonal communication, the source and receiver are involved in the communication process together. Here the source becomes a receiver and receiver becomes source because the dynamic communication process will generate the feedback shared between source and receiver.(https://www.daowen.com)
Interpersonal communication
Group communication is mainly involved in the information exchange inside a group. In the communication process, every member becomes a source as well as receiver through sharing information and gives the feedback to another.
Group communication
In mass communication, basically there are a large number of audiences and they are not grouped together in one place, so we need certain tool or technology for communication process. In mass communication, there is no direct access to receiver. For that they need media like newspaper, radio, television and internet. Here the audience feedback is very less or delayed.
Mass communication
Words & Expressions
elicit：引发，诱出
intrapersonal communication：人内传播
interpersonal communication：人际传播