Communication

Communication

1. Semiotics

   • Semantics
     • interpretation of the meaning we associate with any type of sign
     • irrelevante for mathematical phenomenon
   • Syntactic
     • relation that articulates strings of signs into systems
   • science of understanding representation
     • expression of thoughts and feelings
       • perceptible to others
       • Signs
         • Charles S. Pierce
           • Icon
             • indicates the character of the original perception
               • Statue of a person
           • Index
             • original characteristic of a perception
               • dark clouds suggest rain
           • Symbol
             • associated to the original perception
               • your name reminds us of you

2. Language

   • language & mathematics
     • elaborated in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
   • Levels of thought (Kristen 1989)
     • Grammar
       • classes or types of words that could be used in relation to others
     • Rhetoric
       • articulation of words or sentences
         • effective expression to a listener or a reader
     • Logic
       • combines rules of grammar and rhetoric
         • artculation of words is compared to articulation of sentences
       • information as symbolic logic
         • logic of meaningful utterances is known as rhetorical logic
           • no meaning reference to language but only use numbers or algebraic notation is known as mathematical logic

3. Definitions

   • we communicate with one another because we sunrise basic human values
     • speech and gestures convey meaning
       • Meaning
         • paradigm for all the theories and models of communication
   • Claude Shannon
     • inventor of information theory
       • against drawing analogies between information and communication processes has been ignored