The world came to existence as a result of communication, therefore everything in it must definitely communication. hence a society can not exist without communication, in other words, communication must take place before a given geaographical area can grow to become a society. Not wistanding we must know a society is and what communication is all about.
A society may be described as a group of people who have lived togethter, sharing common values and general interest long enough to be considered by others and themselves as a unit. Analysing the definition of society above, you would see that for this group of people to have been regarded as a group, they must have communicated, it is inevitable for this group of people to share common values and general interest without communicating.
What is this almighty communication? Communication they say is the soul of life. human life depend opn communication. we communicate to live and live to communicate, the day we stop to communicate is the day we give up the ghost. un like other animals which are structured or made in such a way as to survive in a particular environment in other words man was not created with special features to enable him survive in a particular environment, yet man survive virtually in all environment, thanks to communication.
Comunication has made it possible for man to survive in all environment, everything about him is communication and throughout his life he communicates but what exactly is this all important communication? Communication has been variously defined, some of the definitions includes Transmissions of information, that is the passage of information from Mr A to Mr B through a channel. Passing of message fron one place to another.
There are various needs for communication in a society, these include A society cannot exist without communication and for as long as we have more than one creature in a given geographical area, there is bound to be communication. furthermore, even in a geographical area where we have one one person, which is arguably impossible, he is bound to communicate within himself and with his environment this lead us the classifications of communication that exist in a society and imagining how it will be without them.
DEMONSTRATIVE COMMUNICATION
This is a type of communication that engages component of demostration communication mode to serve various very useful purposes in terms of sensitising audience and community memebers to different messages. This form of communication basically involves music and dance imagine a party without music, a festival with dance, even a military parade without music? This simply show s the extent at which we cannot exist without communication.
ICONOGRAPIC COMMUNICATION
Icons are generally regarded as standing for or representing something else. it standsto reason that iconographic communication comprises elements which communicate or pass across messages. however based on a society”s peculiar history, experience and circumstance, elements, symbols and icons do not uniformly communicate same message.
iconographic communication, in a symbolic relation, the medium is able to suggest reality because not through any necessary or inherent connection but through customs and habituation, the symbol arouses responses very similar to those evoked by reality itself.Based on established ways of doing things, the elements of this mode of communicate understood by the community. for instance,an illiterate who has been living in a village and now comes to the city of Abuja for the first time, and he sees a traffic light. first, he would not know its a traffic light, and second he wouldnt know how it communicates, but any average city resident know what a traffic light and how it communicate.
the larger part of iconographic communication is prominent in the rural communites. Amongst the yorubas, when oay someone a visit and he offers you water in means you are welcome, and if its otherwise it simply means you are not welcome.
EXTRA MUDANE COMMUNICATION
This is a form of communication between man and the spirit world. this communication embraces supernatural beings-ancestors, spirits, gods and the supreme GOD it also involve processes, elements or abilities that are superhuman as in witchcraft, reincartation etc it is clear from the forgoing thay extra- muydane communication is quite a complex endeavour. it may involve intra-personal processes, physical revelation, magical other-worldly verbalizations, spiritual tranmigration and it may convey elements of cultural celebration, dedication and concecration. a very good example is the Osun festival. while one of the most common example if this mode of communication is masquerade. where man assume the spirit world wearing a mask.
INTER-PERSONAL COMMUNICATION
This is the most common mode of communication and one of the oldest. it all began with adam and eve in th garden of eden. its a type of communication that takes place between two perosn or more but not a crowd. it takes place in almost every of our daily endeavours. this is a fomr of communicationthat is bound on humans. it takes place at home, at work, in the office, mosque, church, market every where as long as there are more than one person in the given geographical area.
CORRELATION is another function performed by communication in a society. throught this functioncommunication helps to interpret and put issues, events, occurenes etc in proper perspective for us to understand. 1001 events occur daily in rapid succession dat without communication it will be humanly impossble to follow those events let alone understanding them.Man communicates from his day of birth till his death.
everyhting he does he communicates.where ever he is he communicates, whether at work, at home , in the office in the toilet any where that he may fine him self, he communicates. even after death it is believed, especially be africans that man still communicate in the spiritual realm.Since we live to communicate and we communicate to live, our life is therefore communication, hence there is no life without communication and a society can never come to be without life.
