Mod 2: Models of Communication Flashcards
speaker —> speech —> audience
Aristotelian Model
What is the most important part of Aristotelian Model?
The setting
Three types of setting in Aristotelian model that dictates the message
legal, deliberative, ceremonial
What is the legal setting in Aristotelian model?
courts where ordinary people defend themselves
What is the deliberative setting in Aristotelian model?
political assemblies
What is the ceremonial setting in Aristotelian model?
celebrations held when they won a war
a mathematical theory of communication
Shannon-Weaver model
The mathematician
Claude Shannon
The electrical engineer
Warren Weaver
the person (or object or thing) who has the information to begin with
Sender (Information Source)
the machine that converts the idea into signals that can be sent from the sender to the receiver
Encoder (transmitter)
infrastructure that gets information from the sender and transmitter through the decoder and receiver; “medium”
Channel
interrupts a message while it’s on the way from the sender to the receiver; could interrupt understanding of a message
Noise
end-point; the person finally gets the message, or what’s left of it after accounting for noise
Receiver (Destination)
came up with the feedback step in response to criticisms of the linear nature of the approach of the shannon-weaver
Norbert Weiner
the shannon-weaver model is taken by some critics as a
“misleading misrepresentation of the nature of human communication”
Who invented the transactional model?
Dean C. Barnlund
each person in this type of communication acts as both a speaker and a receiver
Transactional model
means that communication is an ongoing and continuously changing process
transactional
criticisms of transactional model
1) the sender cannot be sure that tha receiver got the message intended without verbal response
2) gives opportunity for a lot of noise