
Preface
Communication has always played a pivotal role in the evolution
of human culture, societies and civilisation. From symbols, cave
paintings, petroglyphs, pictograms, ideograms and alphabet based
forms of writing, to computerised forms of communication, such
as the Web, search engines, email, mobile phones, VoIP Internet
telephony, television and digital media, communication technologies
have been evolving in tandem with shifts in political and economic
systems.
Despite the emergence of a variety of communication means
and technologies, natural language, or ordinary language, signed,
written or spoken, remained the main means of communication ...