Understanding communication can improve the way people view themselves and the way others view them.
People learn more about human relationships as they study communication and learn important life skills.
Studying communication can help people exercise their constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech.
An understanding of communication can help people succeed professionally.
The components of communication are people, messages, channels, feedback, codes, encoding and decoding, and noise.
Communication is the process of using messages to exchange meaning.
Communication begins with the self and involves others.
Communication has both a content and relational dimension.
Communication is complicated.
Increased quantity of communication does not necessarily increase the quality of communication.
Communication is inevitable, irreversible, and unrepeatable.
Communication occurs in intrapersonal, interpersonal, public, mass, and computer-mediated contexts. The number of people involved, the degree of formality or intimacy, the opportunities for feedback, the need for prestructuring messages, and the degree of stability of the roles of speaker and listener all vary with the communication context.
Communication behavior should be effective and ethical.
