Mass communication as a subject has borrowed ideas mainly from which of the following?

Mass communication as a discipline borrowed its ideas mainly from philosophy.

Its concepts of meaning, ethics, persuasion and knowledge trace back to philosophical inquiry.

Physics deals with matter and energy and is not the parent source of communication thought.

Chemistry studies substances and reactions and has no bearing on the origins of communication study.

Material science examines the properties of materials and is unrelated to communication's conceptual roots.

Philosophy, with its treatment of language, logic and society, supplied the field's foundational ideas.

Later inputs came from sociology and psychology as the field matured.