Origin of Communication

• M.Mudasser (SP11-BEC-051)• M.Awais Sharif (SP11-BEC-097)

• Yasin Latif (SP11-BEC-093)• Noman Ayub (SP11-BEC-065)

What is Communication?

• Communication is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behavior.

History of Communication History of communication involves: 1.Speech 2.Symbols 3.Writing

Speech• Human communication was revolutionized

with speech approximately 200,000 years ago.• Vocalized form.• Based on Syntatic(syntax) combination of

lexicals and names.

Symbols

• Symbols introduced 30,000 years ago.

• A conventional representation of a concept.

• Imperfection of Speech.• Improving both the range at

which people could communicate and the longevity of the information.

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Symbols involves:1.Cave paintings2.Petro glyphs3.Pictograms4.Ideograms

Cave paintings

• Cave paintings are paintings on cave walls and ceilings, especially those of prehistoric origin.

• Oldest symbol.• Form of rock art.• The oldest known cave

painting is that of the Chauvet Cave, dating to around 30,000 BC.

Petro glyphs

• Petroglyphs (also called rock engravings) are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, and abrading.

• Carvings into a rock surface. It took about 20,000 years for homo sapiens to move from the first cave paintings to the first petroglyphs, which are dated to around 10,000BC.

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• The most important difference between petroglyphs and pictograms is that petroglyphs are simply showing an event, but pictograms are telling a story about the event

• The term petroglyph should not be confused with pictograph, which is an image drawn or painted on a rock face.

Pictograms

• A pictogram (pictograph) is a symbol representing a concept, object, activity, place or event by illustration.

• Pictography is a form of proto-writing whereby ideas are transmitted through drawing.

• Pictography is a form of writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings.

Ideograms

• An ideogram or ideograph is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept.

Writing

• Invention of the first writing systems is roughly contemporary in with the beginning of the Bronze Age.

• First writing system is generally believed to have been invented in pre-historic Sumer and developed by the late 3rd millennium into cuneiform.

Writing

Writing• Indus Valley Script was

also developed in third Millennium.

• a few scholars have questioned the Indus Valley script's status as a writing system.

First Writing Language

• Heiroglyphics, the first standardize written language

• It was a form of picture writng, each symbol represented and idea or a word.

• Believed that writing was invented by god Thoth.

Alphabet

• First pure alphabets emerged around 2000 BC in Ancient Egypt.

• Alphabetic principles had already been incorporated into Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Means Of Communications

• The very first postal service for government used in China

• Announce the winner of Olympic Games.

Means Of Communications

• Wooden printing presses invented in China

• Symbols were carved on wooden block

• Newspaper appeared in Europe

Means Of Communications

• Henry Mill patent the first type writer. (1714)

• Charles Wheatstone invented the telegraph and microphone. (1821)

Means of Communication

• Alexender Graham Bell patent the first telephone

• Television• Computer

Means of CommunicationInternet

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