Rituals are \"certain repetitive social practices\" involving \"repetitive, formalized, sylized acts and usually forms of speech.

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Rituals are forms of symbolic communication that have effects on the behavior of the participants and obeservers. These effects in part are the reasons that rituals are repeated.

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\"Ritual is the voluntary performance of appropriately patterned behavior to symbolically effect or participate in the serious life\" (Rothenbuhler, 1998, p.27)

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Rituals are valued differently according to an individual\'s perception of that ritual, this demonstrates how communication as rituals can be classified as a phenomenological tradition.

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Palmer, C. T., & Pomianek, C. (2007). Applying Signaling Theory to Traditional Cultural Rituals. Human Nature, 18(4), 295-312. doi:10.1007/s12110-007-9020-2

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Potential Questions we could ask to encourage discussion based of the summary of ritual as communuication.

Ritual as Communication