Communication Basics 101
The communication process consists of an ongoing exchange of information between these two parties.
Sender and Receiver
This Ancient Greek philosopher observed that the human being is "by nature a social animal".
Aristotle
An "independent clause" is just a fancy, technical term for this.
Complete Sentence
This type of noun refers to a specific person, place, or thing, and therefore requires capitalization.
Proper Nouns
Although we have not perfected it yet, we attempt to replicate body language by using these in writing... A popular signifier among cell phone users.
Emoji
A writer or speaker will do this with their language in order to encapsulate an intended message.
Encode
This camp of evolutionary linguists believe that human beings' capacity for language developed fairly suddenly in the evolutionary chain... Like some 10,000 years suddenly.
Discontinuity Theorists
This technical term refers to the condensing of two words into one... Lazy human beings.
Contraction
This 'part of speech' is used to join or connect other words, phrases, or clauses within a sentence.
Conjunctions
In this phase of every conversation, speakers will usually refer to another time, date, and/or place for future communication... 15,000 years and no sign of stopping yet.
Closing (or, Conclusion)
A reader or listener will do this in an attempt to understand the intended meaning of a writer or speaker.
Decode
This evolutionary biologist believed that human beings' capacity for language was first derived from the imitation of sounds being made by other animals.
Charles Darwin
A "colloquialism" refers to this type of word or phrase.
Slang (or, Informal)
This 'part of speech' is also used to identify the time in which something occurred.
Verbs
This phase in every new conversation is often dreaded by introverted individuals.
Small Talk
This mnemonic device refers to a word being formed from the first letter of other words.
Acronym
In the earliest stages, human beings' languages largely consisted of this type of word... still very prevalent and active among languages today.
Nouns
A complete sentence always consists of both a subject... and this.
Predicate (or, Verb Phrase)
This 'part of speech' is used to modify nouns by providing a description of people, places, and things.
Adjectives
While "social intelligence" refers to an adherence to unspoken rules of etiquette, this type of intelligence refers to our ability to read the feelings of another person.
Emotional Intelligence
Every writer and speaker is responsible for selecting this mode best suited to their audience's needs.
Rhetorical Mode
This gene found in many vertebrates, including bats, songbirds, and human beings, is often regarded as "the language gene".
FOXP-2
A comma linking two independent clauses without a conjunction is known as this.
Comma Splice
Interjections
Human beings' natural instinct to imitate the body language of the person with whom we are speaking is referred to as this by psychologists.
The Chameleon Effect (or, Mirroring)