lOMoAR cPSD| 11700591
COM1501 DEFINITIONS
1. Sephamore - is used in military signalling and Flag Alphabet is used in maritime communication.
2. Signals - our ancestors first learned to communicate by means of signals
3. The social significance of the age of speech and language - in the development of human communication gave
people the ability to think, plant, hunt, defend themselves, cultivate the land, preserve food and to keep warm in
winter. This was the era that people began to express their creativity in the form of art – the cave paintings that
have been discovered in different parts of the world.
4. The social significance of printing - is that with the spread of books, information became available to a greater
number of people
5. The age of printing as a stage in the development of human communication is said to have “marked the start of
the modern world”.
6. Purpose for communicating - with others is to develop and maintain relationships with them. Relationship in
this context means any connection, involvement or association between two people, regardless of its source
7. Videoconferencing - is accomplished through both audio and video links and allows people in different locations
to see as well as hear each other
8. Audio conferencing – uses a type of telephone technology, is a substitute for face-to-face communication that
allows businesses and other organisations to cut down drastically on business expenses as well as providing for a
rapid exchange of ideas and information.
9. Teleconferencing – literally means that people commute to work via the information highway. In other words
they work from home using a computer.
10. The World Wide Web - combines words, graphics, video and sound, adds colours, and includes advertising and
downloadable text and programmes.
11. Information age - also known as the computer or digital age.
12. Printing – marked the creation of the Modern world. Permitted storage of large amounts of information. People
were able to share knowledge that had been previously denied to them. Literacy came within reach of the
masses. As more people learned to read and write their thinking was freed from the restrictions of church and
government.
13. Electricity – created the ‘wired world’
14. Models simplify the complex phenomenon such as communication
Through providing simplified representations
Models also represent only the aspect of communication
Whilst eliminating other aspects.
15. Meaning-centred –
Is the dynamic process of exchanging meaningful messages.
It can be regarded as the transmission of messages involving the interpretation and assigning meaning. It is also
regarded as being interested in what motivates people to communicate.
Meaning-centred theorists concentrate on issues such as how people give meaning to each other’s messages,
what happens between them during communication, how they use language to create and exchange meaningful
messages
, lOMoAR cPSD| 11700591
16. Transactional - is when people enter into a dialogue to assign meaning, develop a relationship, and negotiate
meaning. Contemporary theorists regard communication not only as an interactive process of exchanging
meaningful messages, but as a transaction between the participants during which a relationship develops
between them
COM1501 DEFINITIONS
1. Sephamore - is used in military signalling and Flag Alphabet is used in maritime communication.
2. Signals - our ancestors first learned to communicate by means of signals
3. The social significance of the age of speech and language - in the development of human communication gave
people the ability to think, plant, hunt, defend themselves, cultivate the land, preserve food and to keep warm in
winter. This was the era that people began to express their creativity in the form of art – the cave paintings that
have been discovered in different parts of the world.
4. The social significance of printing - is that with the spread of books, information became available to a greater
number of people
5. The age of printing as a stage in the development of human communication is said to have “marked the start of
the modern world”.
6. Purpose for communicating - with others is to develop and maintain relationships with them. Relationship in
this context means any connection, involvement or association between two people, regardless of its source
7. Videoconferencing - is accomplished through both audio and video links and allows people in different locations
to see as well as hear each other
8. Audio conferencing – uses a type of telephone technology, is a substitute for face-to-face communication that
allows businesses and other organisations to cut down drastically on business expenses as well as providing for a
rapid exchange of ideas and information.
9. Teleconferencing – literally means that people commute to work via the information highway. In other words
they work from home using a computer.
10. The World Wide Web - combines words, graphics, video and sound, adds colours, and includes advertising and
downloadable text and programmes.
11. Information age - also known as the computer or digital age.
12. Printing – marked the creation of the Modern world. Permitted storage of large amounts of information. People
were able to share knowledge that had been previously denied to them. Literacy came within reach of the
masses. As more people learned to read and write their thinking was freed from the restrictions of church and
government.
13. Electricity – created the ‘wired world’
14. Models simplify the complex phenomenon such as communication
Through providing simplified representations
Models also represent only the aspect of communication
Whilst eliminating other aspects.
15. Meaning-centred –
Is the dynamic process of exchanging meaningful messages.
It can be regarded as the transmission of messages involving the interpretation and assigning meaning. It is also
regarded as being interested in what motivates people to communicate.
Meaning-centred theorists concentrate on issues such as how people give meaning to each other’s messages,
what happens between them during communication, how they use language to create and exchange meaningful
messages
, lOMoAR cPSD| 11700591
16. Transactional - is when people enter into a dialogue to assign meaning, develop a relationship, and negotiate
meaning. Contemporary theorists regard communication not only as an interactive process of exchanging
meaningful messages, but as a transaction between the participants during which a relationship develops
between them
