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What is Communication?
Please get ready to take notes.
Objectives:
- Define communication
- Define symbols & be able to identify 4 kinds
- Identify 2 models of communication
- Know the parts to the models & definitions: sender,
receiver, message, feedback, channel, context, noise,
encode, decode
Quotes about communication:
• “Communication is the vehicle which allows
humans to recall the past, think in the present, and
plan for the future.” Roy Berko
• “Good communication is as stimulating as black
coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” Anne
Morrow Lindbergh
• “The most basic and powerful way to connect to
another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the
most important thing we ever give each other is our
attention. A loving silence often has far more power
to heal and to connect than the most wellintentioned words.” Rachel Naomi Remen
Quotes cont’d.
• “The more elaborate our means of
communication, the less we
communicate.” Joseph Priestley
• “Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of
the people couldn't start a conversation
if it didn't change once in a while.” Kin
Hubbard
Communication is:
• The deliberate or accidental transfer
of meaning;
• That which occurs when someone
observes or experiences behavior and
attributes meaning to it;
• A process;
• Our link to the rest of humanity.
Symbols
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Anything that stands for an idea
and is used for communication
1.
2.
3.
4.
Verbal (spoken words)
Written (words)
Nonverbal (gestures, eye contact, etc.)
Other (clothing, signs, etc.)
What other symbols can you
think of?
• Write down 3 others in your notebook.
Communication as Transaction
• Shannon-Weaver model (1948)
• Back and forth, like a Ping-Pong game= linear
Context
Noise
Sender
Message
Feedback
Receiver
What are these parts?
• Sender: originator of an idea
• Message: written, spoken (verbal), & unspoken
(nonverbal) elements of communication to which
we assign meaning
Channel: how the message is sent; verbal or
nonverbal
Context
Noise
Sender
Message
Feedback
Receiver
• Receiver: person or persons to whom the
message is addressed
• Noise:anything that prevents effective
communication at any time. EX: poor sound
system, small VA’s, lose signal on cell
• Feedback: verbal or nonverbal responses to a
message
• Context:physical, social (relationships),
psychological, and time element in which
communication takes place. PSPT
Encode & Decode
• Encode: a process of translating ideas,
feelings, and thoughts into symbols
• Decode: a process of translating
incoming information into
understandable concepts
Communication as Interaction
• Simultaneous; even as we talk we are reacting
• Most accurate to our communication process
• intercultural
Context
Noise
Sender/
Receiver
Message / Feedback
Sender/
Receiver
Frank Dance’s model
• Spiral, helix
• Evolves or progresses in a person from
birth to the present moment.
• Current behavior is affected by past
experiences and future behavior is
effected by current impacts.
Review
• Com. as
Transaction:
receiver responds
to the sender
through feedback
• Com. as
Interaction:
simultaneously
interactive
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Assignment
You may work by yourself or with up to two other
people.
Be sure to incorporate all the parts of the models.
Choose one of the following:
1. Create a scene of communication and label the
parts. (First you will need to draw the scene where
the communication situation is taking place, then
label the parts.)
2. Draw a cartoon that uses communication and label
the parts.
3. Create a math equation for all three communication
processes.
4. Act out a scene of communication and label the
parts during the scene.