ABSTRACT
I want to talk about human communication in the restricted sense of exchanges between human beings primarily of words designed by each to affect the other. This is not the whole field of communication or even of communication which could be distinguished as human but it is a very important part of the field and it deserves separate consideration. It serves three major functions, each of which presents various levels of difficulty and calls for corresponding gradations of skill. I wish to contribute to a better understanding of the limitations which restrict communication between people and the ways in which these can be enlarged. For it seems clear to me that the governance of the contem porary world requires higher levels of communication than are now being achieved and requires us to raise our performance as communi cators by every means available to us.
