I start from telling you about communication. The word 'communication' has been derived from Latin word 'communis' that means 'common'. Acc. to Wiber Schramn "When we communicate, we are trying to establish a 'commonness' with someone. The essence of communication is getting the receiver and the sender 'turned' together for a particular message. Communication takes place when one person transfers information and understanding to another person. So, it is clear that communication involves at least two persons. BUT, "Does communication necessarily involves at least two persons?" If we talk of commonly written process of communication in various books, it is summed up in following steps: 1. SENDER 2. IDEAS 3. ENCODING 4. SELECTING CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION 5. RECEIVER 6. DECODING 7. ACTION 8. FEEDBACK This also shows that communication involves at least two persons. BUT, "Does communication necessarily involves at least two persons?" If someone asks from me I would reply "NO". This can be proved very easily. To arrive at the answer "NO" you have to take an example. I request everyone reading this article to think of a morning when you are not in a hurry and you are getting ready for your office or what ever. Then to get dressed you go to the cupboard and open it and start searching for trouser with matching shirt, a suit or any similar dresses. Normally, we first two or three dresses and then decide which one to wear. And imagine you are alone. So here lies the answer. If we go by process of communication it is as follows: you are sender, you have a message that is "what to wear?", you encode via uttering slowly or thinking, you choose a channel which is abstract to communicate (i.e. mind), then your inner mind is the receiver it decodes the message and at last action is taken with feed back i.e. you decide to wear a dress. So communication is complete. And it doesn't need two persons in this process. So communication is two way process but it may result from one person also. THIS IS WHAT I THINK? WHAT DO YOU THINK? DO YOU AGREE WITH ME? Reply me at: bgkapur_bg@yahoo.co.in Or bgk_81@yahoo.co.in Bharat Gaurav Kapur (Lecturer in Commerce) |
