The ways of communication
People use their language to say their thoughts, opinions or feelings. They communicate.
We can communicate to other people in
different ways:
- we can talk and write
- we can send messages
- there are
also phones, including mobiles, fax, and e-mails
- television, film, painting and
photography can also express ideas
Music can also be the
universal language because almost everybody of us can understand it. Animals have ways of exchanging information, too.
Bees dance and tell other bees where to find food.
Elephants make sounds that humans cannot
hear.
Whales sing songs.
Monkeys use their faces to show anger and love. We can also understand the
language of flowers.
But this is nothing compared to what people can do. We also use systems of signs,
symbols, gestures for expressing information. Like all animals, we have a body language ,
gestures and facial expressions.
Our body shows our feelings, fear, anger, happiness or
thoughts. When we yawn, we are tired or bored. Sitting with eyes and mouth wide-open means that we are
fascinated or surprised.
We produce thousands of signs every day.
On the other hand, we have
language-about 6 000 languages, in fact. We can write poetry, tell jokes, make promises, explain, persuade, tell the truth or tell a lie.
And we have the sense of the past and future, not just only the present. Because of
that most of us find embarrassing to remain silent in a company and feel they have to fill the silence by saying something.
But some people
like silence and they do not use a lot of words. From time to time silence can expresses its ideas more powerfully than speech.
There are different kinds of conversation:
- Formal – speech, lecture, sermon, ceremony, monologue,
diction
- Informal – chat, gossip, discussion, whisper, dialogue, rumour
Many psychologists
say that men and women’s conversations are different.
Men like talking about hobbies, sports and women. On the
other hand women like talking about fashion, children, cooking and other people.
Other potential type of communication is
phone, especially mobiles. Many of us prefer talking to others through the phone at these days but if the situation needs to be
formal, we should prefer a face-to-face communication.
Modern technologies influence everyone of us.
When we come back home we switch on TV, radio or computers and they replace our missing communicators.
And now we have the
Internet and its e-mails, which is infinite. It is very popular nowadays and people can give and get a lot of
information or send messages to whom it may concern very fast. In last centuries people used a system of sending messages through the dots and dashes,
short and long sounds or flashes of lights. It was called the Morse code.
Communication is very important in the
evolution of human beings. Modern media is changing our world every minute of every day.
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