Communicative Environment

The environment is the physical and psychological space in which the communication is happening (Mclean, 2005). It might also describe if the space is formal or informal. In our example above, it is the coffee shop you and your friend are visiting in.

The communicative environment includes all things perceived by the participants in that environment; namely, all things perceived by the sences – seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting.
Communication is carried on by individuals within the context of groups and with the use of signs whose meanings are established in part by negotiation among the members of the groups. Thus, human beings:

-continually create their own signs, and
-they continually encounter and make use of signs created by others.
Because of this the members of a society are constantly immersed in a "communication environment" that is rich in potential information. It is the presence of this environment that makes true the statement that it is impossible for human beings not to communicate.
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