Editing Symbolic communication (section)

==== Verbal symbolic communication ====
Verbal communication refers to communication that makes use of words, both written and spoken. [[Ferdinand de Saussure|Saussure]] introduced the notion of there being no inherent relation between the use of ''cow'' in English and ''vache'' in French to signify the same mental concept of a bovine grass feeder.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Frameworks for Policy Analysis Merging Text and Context|last=Lejano, Raul|date=2013|publisher=Taylor and Francis|isbn=9781136083785|oclc=962070721}}</ref> The arbitrary link between the word, both written and spoken, makes this communication symbolic in nature, as opposed to [[Indexicality|indexical]].