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Essay / Human Communication Theory: Human, Communication and...
In 1+1+1=3 algebra, however, we cannot apply this principle to the definitions of individual terms. It is clear that the sum of the parts does not cover the macro idea of “Human Communication Theory”. Combining these terms in a crucible and emerging with a product greater than the sum of its parts allows for an artistic touch as well as an abstraction of the term. The objective is an abstraction or a macro idea, because the “Human Communication Theory” should not exclude any point of view on which these basic elements constitute the foundation. Therefore, “Human Communication Theory” is defined as “the general ideas or principles that concern the act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information between two or several Homo sapiens using every possible medium at an ever-increasing rate. This definition can then be applied to the seven (7) traditional points of view which propose different ways of talking about communication (the rhetorical, the semiotic, the phenomenological, the cybernetic, the sociopsychological, the sociocultural and the critical). (Little John,