Go to index for Human Comm Goes to the Movies. Verbal Communication is the basis of speaking to one another. This form of communication uses words, symbols and attaches meanings to these as well. Human beings are required to learn such a language because it is required by their environment and separates us from the animals. Certain symbols are socially agreed upon by our culture which contain conventionalized meanings.
Conventions are a rule that people of a given language community agrees to follow.
These conventions state whenever a person initiates a particular sound pattern or a specific action. The meanings of these are to be distinguished in both the sender and receiver and the rules are set forth and no other may be used. Without this principle, people would use any word at any time to refer to anything at all. In the scene when Seth goes and visits Messenger in the hospital and touches his chest, this shows us just how the angel world works. Messenger notices right away right after Seth touches his chest because that is how the angel world heals and watches over the mortal human beings.