Expert summary
Communication means any process of conveying information from a sender to a receiver using a medium. The communicated idea is understood the same way by both sender and receiver. Communication is made use of by organisms to exchange information through several methods. In order for communication to be effective, there should be a mutually intelligible language that is exchanged. There are auditory means like speaking, songs or tone of voice, and nonverbal means such as gestures, writing, etc. An analysis of communication examines the content, source, form, channel, destination, sender, receiver and decoder. Human communication as an information transfer has syntactic, pragmatic, and semantic aspects to it. Language is the most efficient form of communication