What Does Communicating Mean?

Communicating simply means to convey some kind of information. It is usually a process where ideas are exchanged or interchanged. Like Anthony Lewis once said "That ability to communicate was strange in a man given to long, awkward silences".

Apart from being the usual process of transferring information it is also referred to sign-mediated interactions. It is usually comprised of three levels in something known as the semiotic rules. They are namely Syntactic, pragmatic and semantic. In communication the message is always sent from a sender or encoder to a receiver or decoder. This form of message could be anything like a sign symbol or even language or vocal. It is also a process where signs and symbols are converted into a common language that could be understood by everyone.