Meaning and Signification Business Communication
The English word ‘communication’ has been derived from the Latin word, ‘Communicare’ which means
to impart or participate or to transmit. The word ‘Communicare’ is derived from the root ‘Communis’
which means to make common or to share.
Communication is
- the activity or process of sharing or exchanging ideas, feelings, information,
experience between two or more persons - an act or instance of transmitting
- the information actually communicated by some means.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines communication as “the action of conveying or exchanging
information and ideas.” Keith Davis defines communication as “Communication is the transfer of information and
understanding from one person to another.”
Communication is a process of sharing of ideas, information, knowledge, attitude or feelings among two or more persons through certain signs and symbols or language. It is the transfer of understanding or meaning. An idea by itself cannot be understood.