Fundamentals of Extension Education

Meaning of Communication

• The word ‘communication’ comes from the Latin ‘communis’ meaning ‘common’. This implies that when we communicate. We are trying to establish ‘communality’ with someone through a message.
• Communication then is a conscious attempt to establish commonality over some idea, fact, feelings and the like with other. In essence, it is a process of getting a source and a receiver tuned together for a particular message or series of message.
• The word communication has many different meanings for different persons. According to Webster’s new world dictionary communication means, transmitting giving and receiving of information, signals or messages by talk, gestures, writing etc.
• However in this publication we will be concerned with this concept only as a science or art of communicating as a branch of study and that too in relation to communication in between human beings only.

Meaning of Communication
• Communication making/establish commonness between sender and receiver
• Interchanging ideas, feelings, facts between two or more people.
• It helps to movement of know-how.
• It is also called learning process.