Text One An Introduction to CommunicationI. Words Study i) New Words:sociology n. 社会学 psychology n. 心理学economics n. 经济学politics n. 政治学academic adj. 学院的, 理论的system n. 系统，体系environment n. 环境biological n. 生物学的community n. 团体，社会，社区root n. 根mechanism n. 机制symbol n. 象征means n. 手段，方法preserve v. 保存opposite adj. 相反的，对立的conduct v. 进行，操作gesture n. 姿势，手势facial adj. 面部的pitch n. 声调pattern n. 类型，模式ii) Key Words & Expressions:communication n. 传播journalism n. 新闻学transfer n.& v. 传递，迁移information n. 信息circulation n. 流通，运行，循环，传播convey v. 传送，传递feedback n. 反馈，反应medium n. 媒体，媒介，中介II. Text StudySTUDY PREVIEW communication is an important word in our today’s academic study in journalism, sociology, psychology, economics & politics. It’s also heard more & more often in our daily life. So what is communication? Communication: The transfer of social information & the circulation of social information systems.Social: When we say “communication” in our study, we usually mean human communication, not animal communication; a “communication” happening in a society, not in other environments such as natural, physical or biological ones. Why we study “human communication”?Communication is the tool that makes societies possible. It is no accident that communication and community have the same word root. Without communication, there would be no communities; and without community, there could be no communication. The sociologist Charles Cooley called communication “the mechanism through which human relations exist and develop_ all the symbols of the mind, together with the means of conveying them through space and preserving them in time”.Transfer of...
