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  2. Hockett's design features - Wikipedia

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    This is an important distinction made of human communication, i.e. language as compared to animal communication. While animal communication can display a few other design features as proposed by Hockett, animal communication is unable to lie or make up something that does not exist or have referents.

  3. 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.

  4. Human–animal communication - Wikipedia

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    Human–animal communication is the communication observed between humans and other animals, ranging from non-verbal cues and vocalizations to the use of language. [ 1 ] Some human–animal communication may be observed in casual circumstances, such as the interactions between pets and their owners, which can reflect a form of spoken, while not ...

  5. Great ape language - Wikipedia

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    Other researchers in primate cognition have found evidence of ape inquiries while noting that the structure of their queries may not look exactly like human question-asking. For example, researcher Cat Hobaiter , "If a chimpanzee looks its handler in the eyes and points to a banana, it may be interpreted that the ape is asking to have the banana."

  6. Language - Wikipedia

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    A number of features, many of which were described by Charles Hockett and called design features [26] set human language apart from communication used by non-human animals. Communication systems used by other animals such as bees or apes are closed systems that consist of a finite, usually very limited, number of possible ideas that can be ...

  7. Speech codes theory - Wikipedia

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    People within that culture decide what they feel is mere communication, small talk or normal chitchat. 5. The site of speech codes (The terms, premises, and rules of a speech code are inextricably woven into the speech itself). In order to understand our own speech codes and even another's we must first analyze the speech of native speakers. 6.

  8. Coordinated management of meaning - Wikipedia

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    Generally, CMM is "how individuals establish rules for creating and interpreting the meaning and how those rules are enmeshed in a conversation where meaning is constantly being coordinated", [1] and where "human communication is viewed as a flexible, open and mutable process evolving in an ongoing joint interaction, which enables movement ...

  9. Nonverbal communication - Wikipedia

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    Verbal communication is a highly structured form of communication with set rules of grammar. The rules of verbal communication help to understand and make sense of what other people are saying. For example, foreigners learning a new language can have a hard time making themselves understood.