Verbal-Communication-1.pptVIP

Verbal Communication Understanding Language Language is a set of symbols and the rules for combining those symbols that are used and understood by a large community of people. Functions of Language: To communicate To give meaning to random experience; To enable us to reason, to draw logical conclusions from the evidence of our senses, to generalize from one event to another, and to predict, create and understand. Two Japanese who knew some Chinese were one day at a Beijing subway station. They saw a warning sign which read: 小心地滑！They were very much surprised to see that nobody around them wa