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Meeting Life Challenges
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Discuss briefly the components of human communication.

Answer

The process of communication can be accidental (without intent), expressive (resulting from an emotional state of a person) or rhetorical (resulting from the specific goal of the communicator). Communication can also be divided as follows.

  1. Intrapersonal Communication
  2. Interpersonal Communication
  3. Public Communication

Components of Human Communication: Communication includes the following components:

  1. Speaking: It involves the use of language in an appropriate manner which is the precise and clear use of slang expressions and words unique to a culture can impede effective communication.
  2. Listening: It involves reception, attention, assignment of meaning and listener's response to the message given out.
  3. Body language: It forms the non-verbal aspect of communication and includes all those messages that people exchange in addition to words.

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