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communication theory: see information theory information theory or communication theory, mathematical theory formulated principally by the American scientist Claude E. Shannon to explain aspects and problems of information and communication. ..... Click the link for more information. . communication theory [kə‚myü·nə′kā·shən ‚thē·ə·rē] (communications) The mathematical theory of the communication of information from one point to another. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Three years ago we hypothesized that the best course of action was to measure the corporate culture with a customized and focused diagnostic workplace survey and to adopt a new theory of communication based on four essential facts drawn from venerable work in sociology and new research on communication. The distinction between signal and message is explicitly drawn not only in the philosophy of language (where the distinction may he cast as one between utterance and thought, or between sentence and proposition), but also, famously, in the mathematical theory of communication (13) and in semiotics (where the contrast is between the signifier and the signified). The mathematical theory of communication, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1949. |
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