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Hearing Balance & Communication

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Hearing Balance & Communication at UCC

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: journalism and information
Qualification: Level 9 NFQ
Degree - Masters (Level 9 NFQ)
University website: www.ucc.ie/

Definitions and quotes

Communication
Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.
Hearing
Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds by detecting vibrations, changes in the pressure of the surrounding medium through time, through an organ such as the ear. The academic field concerned with hearing is auditory science.
Hearing
The best speeches are those that hurt your mind, not your ear.
Fausto Cercignani in: Brian Morris, Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani, 2014, p. 25.
Hearing
Hear ye not the hum
Of mighty workings?
John Keats, Addressed to Haydon, Sonnet X.
Hearing
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
Horace Walpole[citation needed]
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