Verbal communication is the type of communication in which signs or codes are used in the message. The signs are mostly arbitrary or conventional, since they express what is transmitted and are also linear; each symbol goes one after the other.

It can be done in two ways:

In verbal communication there are several stages: the message, the code and the channel, which includes context, noise and redundancy. But verbal communication is normally identified with oral communication, of which there are multiple forms.

It is also any type of communication that requires articulating words so that the other person understands what is being talked about or communicated.