In Algebra 1+1+1=3, however, we cannot apply this principle to the definitions of individual terms. It is clear that the sum of the parts does not cover the macro idea of “Human Communication Theory”. Combining these terms in a melting pot and resulting in a product that is greater than the sum of its parts allows for an artistic touch as well as an abstraction of the term. The goal is an abstraction or a macro idea because “Human Communication Theory” should not exclude any point of view of which these building blocks form the foundation. Therefore, “Human Communication Theory” is defined as “the general ideas or principles concerning the act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information between two or more Homo sapiens using all possible means at an ever-increasing pace". This definition can then be applied to the seven (7) traditional views that provide different ways of talking about communication (the rhetorical, the semiotic, the phenomenological, the cybernetic, the sociopsychological, the sociocultural, and the critical). (Little John,
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