The use of communication to promote social development.
What is development communication?
100
This is an academic field that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time.
What is communication studies?
100
These are paintings on cave walls and ceilings
What is cave painting?
100
This is a form of non-verbal communication involving the use of stylized gestures, postures, and physiologic signs which act as cues to other people.
What is body language?
100
This is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organizations.
What is censorship?
200
This is a message received and understood.
What is information?
200
This is the scientific study of of natural language.
What is linguistics?
200
This is a wireless solar telegraph that signals using Morse code flashes of sunlight reflected by a mirror
What is the heliograph?
200
This is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behavior.
What is emotion?
200
This is a phrase relating to all the members of class or set.
What is a stereotype?
300
This is the study of sign processes, or signification and communication, signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems.
What is semiotics?
300
This is the term used to describe the academic study of the various means by which individuals and entities relay information through mass media to large segments of the population at the same time.
What is mass communication?
300
This first emerged around 2000 B.C. to represent the language of Semitic workers in Egypt and was derived from the principles of the Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What is the alphabet?
300
This has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.
What is an image?
300
This is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds.
What is a syllable?
400
This investigates communicative processes within and among non-humans such as bacteria, animals, fungi and plants.
What is the biocommunication theory?
400
This is a general term for a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken or signed language use.
What is discourse analysis?
400
This is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state.
What is mass media?
400
This is the form of communication considered peculiar to humankind.
What is language?
400
This is severe social disapproval of personal characteristics or beliefs that are against cultural norms.
What is social stigma?
500
This is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quanitification of information.
What is the information theory?
500
This encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature, talk in interaction, and other approaches to language behavior in philosophy, sociology, and linguistics
What is pragmatics?
500
This Hungarian engineer invented the Telephone exchange in 1876.
Who is Tivadar Puskás?
500
This is something such as an object, picture, written word, sound, or particular mark that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention.
What is a symbol?
500
This is a method of argument, which has been central to both Eastern and Western philosophy since ancient times.