Concepts in Defining Communication

Defining communication calls for two different approaches. The two approaches that communication is defined by is; discovery and constructionist. Discovery looks at the world through different phenomena. Observing objects and their features is describing something that already exists as “objective” in its process and is called discovery. The opposing view point looks at the world that assumes that human try to define everything, and don’t live by independently acquiring human knowledge. This view is defined as subjective constructionist. The problem with defining communication is there are many definitions. It seems like there is no one singular definition that can cover all the different perspectives on what communication is. There are many questions that surround how to define communication but as it seems the best route is whatever the style of the sender is. More so, models can help us describe but defining communication seems like a difficult task. Communication is not always intentional because we’re always communicating, whether it’s non verbal or verbal so to determine if communication is a persuasive/ audience oriented act would be too difficult.