DEFINIENDUM AND DEFINIENTIA OF “COMMUNICATION”

Iasmina Iosim, Mihaela Seracin, Gabriela Popescu

Abstract


Teaching a subject should always start with a clarification of the specific concepts. Which definition to choose and how when there are tens of them for the same concept? This paper aims to answer these questions. To find the best definition of “communication” (the definiendum), a corpus of 20 definitions from printed and online English language dictionaries was identified. A second corpus of 19 words defining “communication” (the definientia) was then identified. Finally, starting from the clusters of similar elements identified and based on their occurrence, a new definition of “communication” was developed. The new definition of “communication” allows teachers to define a complex concept in the most synthetic way possible since it extracts the most salient features of all previous definitions.


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communication; definition; definiendum; definiens

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