1. Communication
Communication takes many forms.
Interlinguistics deals with communication across language barriers, and explores how planned languages like Esperanto and Volapük are used in these situations.
In the past, there were no oral English classes in high school. Now many schools have oral communication classes.
This implies a fun and relaxed working atmosphere where team achievement is highly valued, communication is extremely important and traditional 3-hour meetings have been replaced by informal chats in the queue for coffee.
The means of communication can include letters, magazine and newspaper advertisements, radio and television commercials, and telephone marketing, as well as catalogs.
Businesses often have a list of 5-10 'mission statements' featured in their brochures, on their websites or hanging in their office detailing the values they hold as a form of communication to their employees, their clients and the public.
Service industries include communication, transportation, distribution, finance and a host of other areas which do not involve production of goods.
To win his audience, the speaker resorted to using rhetorical techniques he learned from his communication courses.
The command of communication skills in multiple languages is essential to any company providing goods and services on the world market.
In its broadest sense communication includes all forms of transmitting thoughts or feelings between people.
As all kinds of communication methods are proliferating, human relationships are weakening. This is a perfect example of mistaking means for ends.
Knowing their languages is not enough to communicate effectively, because the methods of communication are determined by their cultures.
The equal rights and survival of languages can be assured only if the European Union accepts a neutral, easy-to-learn bridge language for interethnic communication, introducing it step by step.
Nowadays UNESCO recommends that everybody should use three languages: the mother tongue, the language of local communication and the international language.