Communication theory

There is much discussion in the academic world of communication as to what actually constitutes communication. Currently, many definitions of communication are used in order to conceptualize the processes. Communication is also understood as the exchanging of understanding. Additionally the theory investigates communicative processes within and plants.

We might say that communication consists of transmitting information from one person to another. In fact, many scholars of communication take this as a working definition, and use Lass well’s maxim, as a means of circumscribing the field of communication theory. A simple communication model with a sender transferring a message containing information to a receiver.

Communication stands so deeply rooted in human behaviors and the structures of society that scholars have difficulty thinking of it while excluding social or behavioral events. Because communication theory remains a relatively young field of inquiry and integrates itself with other disciplines and sociology, one probably consensus conceptualization of communication across disciplines.

Currently, there is no paradigm from which communication scholars may work. One of the issues facing scholars is the possibility that establishing a communication met theory will negate their research and stifle the broad body of knowledge in which communication functions. Other commentators suggest that a ritual process of communication exists and social context.