Communication

vs.
Animal
Communication
Human Communication

Language is the most effective method of human communication.

The term language is derived from the Latin word lingua meaning
tongue.
Human language is in organized form. It is an open entity, new
words or meanings may come into use. Language is as important as
breathing. Barnett says, “Verbal communication is a condition of the
existence of human society.”
 Language helps man in several ways. It enables him to reach back
into collective knowledge of his ancestors. It is through language that
human beings collect and preserve knowledge and transfer it to the
next generation. Most of the linguists disclose the fact that human
language has different types of realizations such as written form,
spoken form. Human language has signifier and signified.
 Animal Communication
  Animals also can
communicate. Some
animals and birds like dog,
dolphins, gibbons, herring
gulls and honey bees have
developed their own system
of communication. But their
communication system differs
from human communication.
Animal communication lacks
flexibility and creativity. Their
communication tradition is
acquired genetically and not
through learning.
 Differences
between Human
and Animal
Communication
 CREATIVITY

HUMAN ANIMAL
Animals have to
New words can be evolve in order for
invented easily. their signs to
change.
 INTERCHANGEABILITY

HUMAN ANIMAL
Certain animal
Any gender of human communications in the
can use the same animal world can only
languages. be used by one gender
of that animal.
 ARBITRARINESS

HUMAN ANIMAL
Human language is
symbolic, using a set
number of sounds Animal communication
(phonemes) and is not symbolic, so it
characters (alphabet), cannot preserve ideas
which allows ideas to be of the past.
recorded and
preserved.
 BIOLOGY

HUMAN ANIMAL
On a purely biological
level, the human voice Other animals have
box and tongue are different biological
very unique, and are structures, which
required to make the impact the way they
sounds we recognize as make sounds.
language.
 AMBIGUITY

HUMAN ANIMAL

A word, or sign,
Every sign has
can have several
only one meaning.
meanings.
 VARIETY

HUMAN ANIMAL
Human language
can arrange words Animals only have a
into an infinite limited number of
number of ideas, combinations they
sometimes referred can use to
to as discrete communicate.
infinity.
Thank you!
and

Soli Deo
Gloria
(Glory to God alone)