Communication is a process that allows organisms to exchange information by several methods.

Communication can be seen as processes of information transmission governed by three levels of semiotic rules: Syntactic (formal properties of signs and symbols), pragmatic (concerned with the relations between signs/expressions and their users) and semantic (study of relationships between signs and symbols and what they represent).

Symbolic communications are the things that we have given meaning to and that represent a certain idea we have in place, for example, the American flag is a symbol that represents freedom for the Americans themselves, or imperialism and evil for some other countries.

Put generally, communication is the exchange of information between members of a group of living creatures

Verbal

Non-verbal

Verbal Language A language is a syntactically organized system of signals, such as voice sounds, intonations or pitch, gestures or written symbols which communicate thoughts or feelings.

Non-verbal Nonverbal communication is the act of imparting or interchanging thoughts, posture, opinions or information without the use of words, using gestures, sign language, facial expressions and body language instead.

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied.

The central concern of theoretical linguistics is to characterize the nature of human language ability, or competence: to explain what it is that an individual knows when said to know a language; and to explain how it is that individuals come to know languages.

A substantial part of linguistic investigation concerns the nature of the differences among the languages of the world.

Ferdinand de Saussure, recognized as the father of modern linguistics.

Contextual linguistics Contextual linguistics may include the study of linguistics in interaction with other academic disciplines.

Applied linguistics Theoretical linguistics are concerned with finding and describing generalities both within particular languages and among all languages.

Diachronic linguistics Whereas the core of theoretical linguistics is concerned with studying languages at a particular point in time (usually the present) and thus "synchronic", diachronic linguistics examines how language changes through time, sometimes over centuries.

Research currently performed under the name "linguistics" is purely descriptive; linguists seek to clarify the nature of language without passing value judgements or trying to chart future language directions.

Most contemporary linguists work under the assumption that spoken language is more fundamental, and thus more important to study, than written language.

Linguistics, or at least the version practiced today, has its origins in Iron Age India with the analysis of Sanskrit.

Nonverbal communication (NVC) is the process of transmitting messages without spoken words, sometimes called body language, messages can be communicated through facial expressions; gestures; gaze; and posture; Many include the space we use around us; object communication includes clothing, hairstyles, adornment, shoes, and other communicative props (Ottenheimer, 2007, p. 120122), or even architecture; symbols and infographics; prosodic features of speech such as intonation and stress and other paralinguistic features of speech such as voice quality, emotion and speaking style.

The first scientific study of nonverbal communication was Charles Darwin's book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872).

The most common form of object communication is clothing.

Proxemics is the study of how people use and perceive the physical space around them.

Haptics is the study of touching as nonverbal communication.

Chronemics is the study of the use of time in nonverbal communication.

Oculesics is the study of the role of eyes in nonverbal communication.

Paralanguage (sometimes called vocalics) is the study of nonverbal cues of the voice.

Kinesics is the study of body movements, facial expressions, and gestures.