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  2. Active listening - Wikipedia

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    Comprehension is a shared meaning between parties in communication. [1] This can be done through top-down or bottom-up listening strategies. Top-down listening for comprehension will involve preparing for what message is likely going to be given, attempting to organize what is being communicated, and listening for summarizations or shifts in topic.

  3. History of communication - Wikipedia

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    The history of communication technologies (media and appropriate inscription tools) have evolved in tandem with shifts in political and economic systems, and by extension, systems of power. Communication can range from very subtle processes of exchange to full conversations and mass communication.

  4. History of communication studies - Wikipedia

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    In ancient Greece and Rome, the study of rhetoric, the art of oratory and persuasion, was a vital subject for students.One significant ongoing debate was whether one could be an effective speaker in a base cause or whether excellent rhetoric came from the excellence of the orator's character (Socrates, Plato, Cicero).

  5. Communication - Wikipedia

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    The development of new communication technologies, such as telephone, radio, newspapers, television, and the internet, has had a big impact on communication and communication studies. [232] Today, communication studies is a wide discipline. Some works in it try to provide a general characterization of communication in the widest sense.

  6. Communication studies - Wikipedia

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    Communication studies (or communication science) is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in different cultures. [1]

  7. Human communication - Wikipedia

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    Human communication can be defined as any Shared Symbolic Interaction. [6]Shared, because each communication process also requires a system of signification (the Code) as its necessary condition, and if the encoding is not known to all those who are involved in the communication process, there is no understanding and therefore fails the same notification.

  8. Listening - Wikipedia

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    Active listening allows people to be present in a conversation. "Listening is a key factor in cultivating relationships because the more we understand the other person, the more connection we create, as taught in nonviolent-communication Dharma teachings. As someone recently stated, 'We should listen harder than we speak.'" [14]

  9. Narrative paradigm - Wikipedia

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    Narrative paradigm is a communication theory conceptualized by 20th-century communication scholar Walter Fisher. The paradigm claims that all meaningful communication occurs via storytelling or reporting of events. [1] Humans participate as storytellers and observers of narratives.