TOPIC 3

COMMUNICATION

transfer of information, thoughts or ideas to create shared understanding between a sender and a receiver.

CONTENT

refers to the actual words or symbols of the message that are known as language — the spoken and written words combined into phrases that make grammatical sense.

PROCESS

refers to the way the message is delivered — the nonverbal elements in speech such as the tone of voice, the look in the sender's eyes, body language, hand gestures and state of emotions (anger, fear, uncertainty, confidence, etc.) that can be detected.

CONTEXT

refers to the situation or environment in which your message is delivered.

COMMUNICATION NOISE

can influence our interpretation of messages and significantly affect our perception of interactions with others.

WRITING

is a medium of communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols.

TEXT

The result of writing is generally called?

READER

the recipient of text is called?

WRITING SYSTEM

an organized, regular method (typically standardized) of information storage and transfer for the communication of messages (expressing thoughts or ideas) in a language by visually (or possibly tactilely) encoding and decoding (known as writing and reading) with a set of signs or symbols, both known generally as characters (with the set collectively referred to as a 'script').

LOGOGRAM

a written character which represents a word or morpheme.

RADICAL

In Chinese, about 90% of characters are compounds of a semantic (meaning) element called?

PHONETIC

existing character to indicate the pronunciation, called?

SYLLABARY

is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) syllables.

GLYPH

A ____in a syllabary typically represents a consonant followed by a vowel, or just a vowel alone, though in some scripts more complex syllables (such as consonant-vowel-consonant, or consonant consonant-vowel) may have dedicated glyphs.

ALPHABET

is a set of symbols, each of which represents or historically represented a phoneme of the language.

ABJADS

In most of the writing systems of the Middle East, it is usually only the consonants of a word that are written, although vowels may be indicated by the addition of various diacritical marks.

ABUGIDAS

In most of the alphabets of India and Southeast Asia, vowels are indicated through diacritics or modification of the shape of the consonant.

GREEK

often considered to be the first alphabet.

FEATURAL SCRIPT

notates the building blocks of the phonemes that make up a language.

are also common in fictional or invented systems, such as Tolkien's Tengwar.

SIGN WRITING

the most popular writing system for many sign languages, where the shapes and movements of the hands and face are represented iconically.

QUIPU

It is speculated that the Incas might have employed knotted cords known as quipu (or khipu) as a writing system.