Старший викладач кафедри іноземних мов Бартіш Г.В.

Львівський інститут банківської справи

Університету банківської справи

Національного банку України

COMMUNICATION IN OUR LIFE

Communication is a sharing of thoughts. As messengers share their thoughts, listeners interpret the message they receive. In the course of a conversation people take turns being messengers and receivers. Communication is what you think other people are telling you. Communication is also what other people think you are telling them. Communication is simply sending and receiving messages.

We are constantly receiving messages. Some are written, like the newspaper and the office note. Others are spoken, like radio disk jockey’s morning chatter. Some, like the red ink, are silent messages. We are sending messages as well as receiving them. We wave to a neighbor and a message is sent. One opens his/her mouth and speaks, and a message is sent. When we write a note to our co-worker, a message is sent. We answer the telephone, and a message is sent. All these messages are ways of communicating. Communication is the skill of making other people understand your ideas. In order to communicate effectively, one must know how to send clear messages. Equally important to clear communication is our ability to understand the messages others are sending us.

The development of good communication skills is essential to our success in life. We can’t escape communicating with those around you. Whether we speak or not, we are sending messages to everyone we meet. The opinions others have about us are formed by the way we communicate. If we are able to express our ideas to others, they will see us in a positive way.

Communication takes many different forms. Sometimes, communication is nonverbal. This means that no words are spoken. Actions may express the person’s thoughts. Such actions include a football player spiking the ball after a touchdown or a child crying when her helium balloon escapes her grasp.

This type of nonverbal communication is called body language. It also involves a person’s posture, facial expression, hand gestures, and eye contact with another person.

The means of communication discussed so far are related to the external senses that we use to communicate with others. But we have other, internal senses which we use to communicate with ourselves. This is self-communication. We make the different parts of our body move at our will with its help. In conclusion, non-verbal communication is more prevalent. Reviewing all the data available about non-verbal communication, it should be clear to us that some means of non-verbal communication are already used by us, some means we can adapt and some we can develop, like the above mentioned brain wave experiments Communication is an essential part of the every-day life. It can take place at any time and in any place. Communication is the process through which participants create and share information with one another as they move toward teaching mutual understanding. Communication is involved in every aspect of daily life, from birth to death. It is universal. Because communication is so pervasive, it is easy to take it for granted and even not to notice it.

To communicate effectively, we need to be familiar with the factors involved in the communication process. These factors will help us to plan, analyze situations, solve problems, and in general do better in our work no matter what our job might be. Communication is a concern to many people. So a lot of thought, work and discussion has gone into different communication situations. Today, such people as psychologists, educators, medical doctors, sociologists, engineers and journalists represent only a few of the professional groups whose members have developed ways of looking at and talking about the communication process in their specialized fields.

There is a great variety of definitions of communication. As to the origin of the word, it comes from the Latin communis, "common".

Since Soviet times communication was largely understood as an act or means of communicating and the general public became accustomed to this meaning (e. g., telephone communications, satellite communications, railway communication). The Ukrainian word that has the same connotation of the American usage of "communication" is "spilkuvannya" while in Russian it is “obshcheniye”.

The field of intercultural communication was given its name by Edward T. Hall, an anthropologist teaching at the Foreign Service Institute from 1951 to 1955. Because the field of intercultural communication developed mainly in the United States and primarily through the work of U. S. scholars, this field started developing in Europe later, using the term cross-cultural communication.

Common forms of human communication include sign language, speaking, writing, gestures, and broadcasting. Communication can be interactive, transactive, intentional, or unintentional; it can also be verbal or nonverbal. Surprisingly, only 7 to 11% of all communication is verbal, the rest being non-verbal and its aspects. Communication varies considerably in form and style.

Interpersonal communication in the form of conversation plays an important role in learning. At larger scales of communication both the system of communication and media of communication change.

Small-group communication takes place in settings of between three and 12 individuals creating a different set of interactions than large groups such as organizational communication in settings like companies or communities. At the largest scales mass communication describes communication to huge numbers of individuals through mass media. Communication also has a time component, being either synchronous or async In our everyday life we quite frequently use a combination of words and gestures to express our full meaning. A means of unconscious non-verbal communication is what is termed body language, or kinesics, to use the scientific term. Our body sometimes expresses our feelings and emotions better than words can. The body uses reflexive and non-reflexive movement, postures and positions to convey its message to anyone who would care to receive it. Our pupils dilate when we are excited. Our eyes narrow when we are concentrating. We slump when we are tired.

Although the face and eyes represent the major channels of non-verbal communication, the movements of the body also provide an important communicative medium. Kinetics is the study of how body language - movements of the hands, feet, and trunk - is related to communication. We make the different parts of our body move at our will with its help. In conclusion, non-verbal communication is more prevalent than we realize. Reviewing all the data available about non-verbal communication, it should be clear to us that some means of non-verbal communication are already used by us, some means we can adapt and some we can develop.

Body movements, in some ways, lack the communicative abilities of both the face and eyes. The muscular structure of the body is less complex and does not allow the kind of fine movements of which the face is capable. Moreover, people are less used to employing movements of the body as a means of communicating. Still, body movements can and do provide important information about a person's psychological state. For instance, adaptors are specific behaviours that, at some point in a person's earlier development, were used for a specific purpose but are no longer a typical part of the person's everyday behaviour. People under stress may sometimes rub their eyes, for example, similar to what they did as children when they hid their eyes to avoid viewing an unpleasant scene or situation. People may also cover their ears, as if trying to avoid hearing an unwanted message.

Finally, one of the most familiar body movements is the emblem, a body movement that replaces spoken language. Emblems are usually specific to a given culture, and they are understood by its members in the same way that most people understand the verbal language that is spoken

Telepathy is one of the most talked about possibilities of communication without words. Telepathy is related to the elusive sixth sense. Speculations about the existence of telepathy came to prominence in the early 20th century with the controversial works of Joseph B. Rhines and other psychologists at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (Rhines, 1937).

The means of communication discussed so far are related to the external senses that we use to communicate with others. But we have other, internal senses which we use to communicate with ourselves. This is self-communication. Internal communication, within oneself, is intrapersonal while communication between two individuals is interpersonal.

The future might bring other novel modes of communication.