Communication

Terminology, Introduction, History, and the Models of communication:
It is very important in our everyday life to communicate with each other and to live peacefully in our society. Miscommunication drives us away from our goals and objectives and makes our development process slow, difficult or completely impossible.
Communication is an enormous term which we can not cover all the aspects of this term in one or two pages. but I focus here on some introductory points, definition, historical aspect and models.
Communication comes from the Latin verb „communicare“ which means „to share, to tell, let participate; to do together, to unite“. In this original meaning, social performance is meant in which several people are involved. Essential aspects of this social action are, on the one hand, stimulation and execution of sign processes, and on the other hand, participation, in which something arises as something jointly (Latin „Communio“: community, „communis“: common).
Communication (Latin „communicatio“) is the exchange or transmission of information that can take place in different forms (verbal, non-verbal) or in different ways like (speaking, writing, through signs and symbols), etc. „Information“ in this context is a summary term for knowledge, insight, experience or empathy. Exchange means a „mutual give and take process“ or it is the process of transferring messages from the sender to the receiver in a condition that the meaning should be matched between them. „Transmission“ is the description of how distances can be overcome or it is meant to be an idea, thoughts, opinions, etc. „leave“ one individual and „get into“ another.
Regarding the description of communication, several different approaches can be distinguished, which are characterized by specific basic assumptions.
The main differences in access methods are, firstly, as what the communicators are conceptually perceived: as human beings, as living beings (human beings and animals), as machines, as behaving bodies, as acting beings.
the Second different ways of access are, whether the communication is regarded as something fundamentally social or as a sum of the individual (individual events, individual actions).
Thirdly, differences arise from, which parts are highlighted (the side of production or reception).
The different approaches lead to different terms of communication, communication models and communication theories.
the word „Communication“ besides its original meaning „social interaction“, is also used for other operations and processes in different contexts. The increasing use of communication technology, led for instance, that the technical aspects also entered into the concept of communication. Amongst Communication nowadays understood also „data transmission“, „mutual control“ and in simple cases „connection of devices“; in other situations, communication is related to institutions or companies and their target groups.
The basics of human communication are mainly language. The story of human speech is about 500,000 BCE and the symbols to transfer this speech were developed about 30,000 years ago. The oldest painting of communication symbols was cave painting a form of rock art.
various models of communication:
The different access methods described above lead to that, that communication is also modeled differently. This means that communication is presented differently and that the different sequences and processes are described and placed in the foreground. In everyday life also such models are used to explain one’s communication and to derive strategies. A main, often unconsciously distinction in everyday modeling is whether it is near to the side of production (speaking, writing, generally: „expression page“) or the side of reception (listening, reading, generally: „impression page“) highlighted.
The widespread has also found the sender-receiver model, which is also described the interpersonal communication with the terms from the signal transmission. Therefore, no actions and strategies can be derived for communication in everyday life and working life from this model.

The above information is mostly taken from Wikipedia.