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Definitions of communication According to Dr Mc Farland - Communication is the process of meaning full interactions among human beings. It is a process by which, meanings are perceived and understandings are reach among human beings. According to Brown - Communication is a process of transmitting ideas or thoughts from one person to another for the purpose of creating an understanding in thinking of the person receiving communication. According to Kelly - Communication is a field of knowledge dealing with the systematic application of symbols to acquire common information regarding an object or event. According to Luther- It is the transmission of commonly meaningful information. It is a process that involves the exchange of behavior. According to Kumar- Communication is the process of making a message understood by satisfying the need sets and ego sets of the receiver. According to Katz Khans- Communication- the exchange of information and transmission the transmission of meaning is the very essence of a social system or organisation. According to MT Myers and GE Myers- Communication refers to a special kind of patterning, which is expressed in a symbolic form. For communication to take place between or among people, two requirements must be met (a) symbolic system must be shared by the people involved (we need to speak the same language or jargon or dialects) and (b) the associations between the symbols and theirs referent must be shared. According to Fortune- it is the procedure whereby one mind affects another. According to Fearing- It is a two-way process which cannot be adequately understood in terms of simple engineering or mechanical analogies. It is uniquely a human relationship from which, emerges all civilisations and culture without which, man as we known him, could not survive. According to Anderson- Communication is a dynamic process in which, man consciously or unconsciously affects the cognition of another through materials or