What is communication?

Everyone knows it, everyone does it… What am I talking about? No… not sex! I’m talking about communication and communicating! Or should it be the other way around? Communicating and communication… Something we all do on a daily basis, but what exactly is communicating? During this study I've learned that: 

Communication

is a social process in which individuals employ symbols to establish and interpret meaning in their environment.

First, we tend to believe that communication is a social process. When interpreting communication as social, we mean to suggest that it involves peoples and interactions. This necessarily includes two people, a sender and a receiver. Both play an integral role in the communication process.

And when communication is social, it involves people who come to an interaction with various intentions, motivations, and abilities. To suggest that communication is a process means that it is ongoing and unending. But I've my doupts on with this claim, cause communicating (in my opinion) mostly has a beginning and an ending. And if it does not have a proper ending, you could be considered rued. Communications is also dynamic, complex, and continually changing. With this view of communication, we emphasize the dynamics of making meaning.

The process nature of communication also means that much can happen from the beginning, of a conversation to the end. See, there Í'm talking about an end again! People may end (again, an end! haha) up at a very different place once a discussion begins. Communication, therefore, can be considered a process that changes over time and among interactants.