Communication is a fact in the world of human beings, animals and plants, and is
an ever-continuing process going on all the time.
it is as necessary to human, animal and vegetable existence as life itself. halt communication and the life process wither and die.
The need for communication is as basic as the Hunger for food and drink, perhaps even more so.
According to one definition,
'communication is the same we give to the countless ways that humans
have of keeping in touch not just words and music, pictures and print, nods and
becks, postures and plumages; to every move that catches someone's eye and
every sound that resonates upon another's ear.'(1)
But this observation is true also for animals, birds and bees and
another land, sea and air creatures.
The singing and chirping of birds, the croaking of frogs and the many
visual and olfactory signals among bird and beast are forms of communication
too; some simple, others very highly sophisticated.
The dance of the Honey Bee, for instance, is an advanced means of
communication for it convey to other bees the precious direction and distance
of the place where nectar will be found.
The human being's need for communication is as strong as and basic as
the need to eat, sleep and love. it is both an individual and social need.
'it is both a natural individual demand and a requirement of social existence to use communication resources in order to engage in the sharing of experiences, through symbol mediated interaction.'(2)
The severest punishment for a child is to be isolated, to be left alone,
not to be spoken, to North Indian children mete out this punishment when they
say 'Kuttie' to their playmates, holding out their Thumb and as an accompanying
gesture.
Grown-Ups too and specially the aged need company, need to communicate. society Punishes criminals by clocking them up in solitary cells, thus starving them to the basic need and indeed the fundamentals right to communicate. Communication involves active interaction with our environment- physical, biological and social.
deprived of this interaction we would not be aware to whether we are safe or in danger, weather hate it or love or satisfied or hungry.
however, most of us take this interaction and this relationship for
granted, unless we experience some deprivation of it. when the happens, we
adapt ourselves to the environment so that we don't lose touch, in both the
literal and figurative Senses. For, to lose touch is to suffer isolation.
However, lack of communication can be as disorientating an experience as
too much of it.
Indeed, the apparent effects of sensory deprivation and sensory overload are frequently similar: anxiety, apathy, impaired judgement, strange visions and something akin to schizophrenia.
The 'information explosion' brought about by the internet and other
Technologies is an instance of this sensory overload.
(1) Ashley montagu
and floyd matso: the human connection, new York: McGraw Hill, 1979.
(2) Luis Beltran:
'farewell to Aristotle' , in communication
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