Oral Communication [1st Term] Flashcards
It is a process of sharing and conveying messages or information from one person to another within and across channels, contexts, media, and cultures.
Communication (McCornack, 2014)
Mother of all communication models.
Linear or one-way process consisting of five elements (Source, Transmitter, Channel, Receiver, & Destination).
Shannon-Weaver Model
A two-way process of communication which involves collaborative exchange of messages between communicators. Inclusion of feedback as one element.
Transaction Model
An interactive model of communication modified from the Shannon-Weaver model.
Schramm Model
Interaction in which words are used to relay a message.
Verbal Communication
Interaction where behavior is used to convey and represent meanings.
Nonverbal Communication
This is essential to the quality of the communication process in general. It should include everything that the receiver needs to hear for them to respond, react, or evaluate properly.
Completeness
This does not necessarily mean keeping the message short, but making it direct or straight to the point. Insignificant or redundant information should be eliminated from the communication that will be sent to the recipient.
Conciseness
This does not necessarily mean keeping the message short, but making it direct or straight to the point. Insignificant or redundant information should be eliminated from the communication that will be sent to the recipient.
Conciseness
For effective communication, the speaker should think about relevant information about their receiver such as mood, background, preference, etc. to easily build rapport with the audience.
Consideration
This happens when facts, figures, and real-life examples and situations were given which leads to the receiver to e more connected to the message conveyed.
Concreteness
The speaker should respect the culture, values, and beliefs of their receivers. This creates a positive impact on the audience.
Courtesy
It implies the use of simple and specific words to express ideas. It is also achieved when the speaker focuses only on a single objective in their speech so as not to confuse the audience.
Clearness
This eliminates negative impact on the audience and increases credibility and effectiveness of the message.
Correctness
Defined communication as a systemic process in which persons intermingle
with and through symbols to produce and understand meanings.
Wood (2004)
This nature involves the innumerable components of communication, speaker/sender, listener/receiver, message, medium, channel, feedback, content, and noise, are associated to one another.
Communication is Sytemic
This nature describes communication as an imaginative, unending condition of life that changes as the communicator’s environments and desires change.
Communication is a process
This nature tells us that verbal and nonverbal are the foundation of language.
Communication is symbolic
This nature of communication is assigned, given, or invented, not received.
Communication involves meanings
The dynamic association established between people through language and intercultural means.
Intercultural Communication
This occurs when different individuals from diverse upbringings encounter and talk with each other.
Intercultural Communication
This is an essential skill in a global village, where various groups have to deal with people of diverse circumstances.
Intercultural Communication
It is an educated and culture-sensitive form
of expression by means of a language that
polite members of societies favor using
when speaking about certain delicate
issues and designations.
Politically Correct Language
The belief that one’s own culture is greater and better than the others.
Ethnocentrism
This transpires when an individual takes with them biases of their own culture throughout a discussion with a person from a dissimilar cultural upbringing.
Ethnocentrism
The fear or anxiety associated with either actual or predicted communication with people from diverse groups, especially cultural and/or ethnic groups.
Intercultural Communication Apprehension/Anxiety