Q1 | Oral Communication

• Emojis were first created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999 and since then become a universal way of expressing emotions in digital communication
• Communication derived from the word, communis, which means working together.
• "Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life." - Bryan Tracy
• Communication is a process of sharing and conveying messages or information from one person to another within and across channels, contexts, media, and cultures (McCornack, 2014)
• How do we describe communication?

  1. A dynamic process
  2. Involves communicators (the sender and the receiver)
  3. Systemic
  4. Irreversible
  5. Proactive (you have a goal in mind)
  6. A symbolic interaction
  7. Meaning is individually constructed
• Channel is the medium used to transmit the message such as face-to-face conversation, telephone call, email, text messaging, etc.