Communication source
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| + | A '''source''' or '''sender''' is one of the basic concepts of [[communication]] and [[information processing]]. Sources are objects which [[encode]] [[message]] [[data]] and [[Transmission (telecommunications)|transmit]] the [[information]], via a [[channel (communications)|channel]], to one or more [[observation|observer]]s (or [[receiver (information theory)|receivers]]). | ||
| - | In [[linguistics]], '''meaning''' is what the [[Communication source|source or sender]] expresses, communicates, or [[conveyed concept|conveys]] in their [[message]] to the observer or [[receiver (information theory)|receiver]], and what the receiver [[inference|infers]] from the current [[context (language use)|context]]. | + | In the strictest sense of the word, particularly in [[information theory]], a ''source'' is a process that generates message data that one would like to communicate, or reproduce as exactly as possible somewhere else in space or time. A source may be modelled as memoryless, [[ergodic]], [[Stationary process|stationary]], or [[stochastic]], in order of increasing generality. |
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| - | * [[Meaning (non-linguistic)]] | + | *[[Common technical regulation]] |
| - | * [[Sphoṭa]] | + | |
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| - | * [[General Semantics]], [[semiotics]], [[pragmatics]] | + | |
| - | ''Perspectives'' | + | |
| - | * [[Logical positivism]] | + | |
| - | * [[Ordinary language philosophy]] | + | |
| - | ''Theories'' | + | |
| - | *[[Causal theory of names]] | + | |
| - | *[[Definite description]]s | + | |
| - | *[[Theory of descriptions]] | + | |
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A source or sender is one of the basic concepts of communication and information processing. Sources are objects which encode message data and transmit the information, via a channel, to one or more observers (or receivers).
In the strictest sense of the word, particularly in information theory, a source is a process that generates message data that one would like to communicate, or reproduce as exactly as possible somewhere else in space or time. A source may be modelled as memoryless, ergodic, stationary, or stochastic, in order of increasing generality.
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