Colin Cherry

"The dictionary definition of communication includes the communication of goods and supplies. But transport of goods is not communication in the sense we are adopting here, and does not raise the same …"

"The theory of communication is partly concerned with the measurement of information content of signals, as their essential property in the establishment of communication links. But the information con…"

"Information" in most, if not all, of its connotations seems to rest upon the notion of selective power. The Shannon theory regards the information source, in emitting the signals , as exerting a selec…"

"Physically, we transmit signals or signs -- audible, visual, tactual. But the mere transmission and reception of a physical signal does not constitute communication. A sign, if it is perceived by the …"

"To take another simile , if we imagine a great library containing books which have a vast number of cross references one to another, then should one whole shelf be burned, it might be possible to reco…"

"The suggestion that words are symbols for things, actions, qualities, relationships, et cetera, is naive, a gross simplification. Words are slippery customers. The full meaning of a word does not appe…"

"Language performs an essentially social function; it helps us to get along together, to communicate and achieve a great measure of concerted action. Words are signs which have significance by conventi…"

"we can strip off all grammatical clues to sentence structure, all affixes and prepositions, and yet still achieve communication. Thus restricted to nouns, simple "stories" can be told in word chains: …"