1. Communication in the US
Ludmila Minaeva,
Varvara Danilina

2. Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share" )
the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behavior.
It is the meaningful exchange of information between two or more living creatures.

3. Variants of the English Language

4. Analyse
Catalogue
Centre
Labour
Honour
Pyjamas
Programme
Cheque
Analyze
Catalog
Center
Labor
Honor
Pajamas
Program
Check

5. I’ve just seen her.
I haven’t got much time.
I live in Market street.
I’m busy Monday to Friday.
We work in a team.
I just saw her.
I don’t have much time.
I live on Market street.
I’m busy Monday through Friday.
We work on a team.

6. Tin
Chips
Post
Angry
Trousers
Railway
Nasty
Lift
Can
French fries
Mail
Mad
Pants
Railroad
Mean
Elevator

7. Small talk the weather, what the speakers “do,”
current physical surroundings (the room or building).
Later, after the preliminaries, Americans may
talk about past experiences they have both had, such as watching a particular TV programme, sport events, seeing a certain movie, or eating at a particular restaurant.

8. Small talk
Americans might inquire briefly about family members (“How’s your wife?” or “How’re the kids?”),but politeness in brief and casual encounters does not require dwelling on the subject

9. Americans are explicitly taught not to discuss
Religion
Politics unless they are fairly well acquainted with the people they are talking with
Financial matters
Body weight

10. The Mass Media
The mass media are diversified media technologies that are intended to reach a large audience by mass communication

11. Professions involving the mass media
Journalism
Public relations
Advertising
Publishing

12. Freedom of the press is protected by the US Constitution
The First Amendment to the US Constitution:
"Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech or of the press…"

13. Types of Media Print media: newspapers, magazines, journals
Broadcast media: radio and TV
Online media: websites and social networks

14. The First Newspapers
The first newspaper Public Occurrences was published in Boston, Massachusetts in It only printed one issue, as it was shut down by colonial officials.
The first regularly published newspaper was The Boston News-Letter (1704).

15. The Largest Newspapers (by circulation)
The USA Today
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Times
The Los Angeles Times
The Washington Post

16. Leading Weekly News Magazines
Time (centre-left)
Newsweek (centre-left)
US News and World Report (centre-right)
Time is well-known for naming a "Person of the Year" each year,
U.S. News publishes annual ratings of American colleges and universities.

17. Radio Regular broadcasting since 1920 By 1928 three national networks:
CBS – the Columbia Broadcasting System
NBC – the National Broadcasting Company
(2 networks, later one NBC network became ABC – the American Broadcasting Company)
Now over 10,000 commercial radio stations and about 1,500 public radio stations

18. Television Commercial TV broadcasting began in 1939
1940s: NBC, CBS, ABC, DuMont (closed in 1956)
Now: 5 broadcast networks: CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, CW
+ cable television

19. Other commercial broadcasting networks
The Big Three
Other commercial broadcasting networks
Nonprofit Television

20. Cable and Satellite Television