week 4 Flashcards
influx of too much
information has caused
misunderstanding,
information overload,
or confusion.
Nature of Communication:
We are social beings…
our ability to communicate that makes us different
words which we speak are reflections of your personality;
We communicate so much; we listen, speak, read, and write every day-
this is the reason why we need to get along well with people every day;
We are social beings…
6 Functions of Communication
- Communication connects one person with another;
- Communication involves interaction;
- Communication is transitory;
- Communication occurs in specific settings;
- Communication is influenced by the fields of experience of the communicator/sender;
- Communication does not contain the usual cues of writing.
3 Views on Communication
- Communication connects people;
- Communication starts relationship;
- Communication involves sharing.
5Basic Functions of Communication
- For interaction
- For increasing our store of information
- For a better understanding of ourselves and the world in which we live;
- For changing people’s attitudes, beliefs, opinions, and actions and;
- For making decisions.
5 The Elements of Communication
SPEAKER
MESSAGE
CHANNEL
Receiver
Feedback
the source of information or message
SPEAKER
the information, ideas, or thoughts conveyed by the speaker in words or in
actions
MESSAGE
the medium or the means by which the message is being sent, such as
personal or non-personal, verbal or nonverbal, in which the encoded message is
conveyed.
CHANNEL
the person or group who takes and gives meaning to the message.
Receiver
the answer or reply of the receiver to the sender.
Feedback –
TYPES OF COMMUNICATION
VERBAL COMMUNICATION
NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION:
4 5 meanings under verbal comm
Phenomenological Meanings
Semantic Meanings
Syntactic Meanings
Pragmatic Meanings
involves the process of transfer of information or
sentiment from the source-message-channel-receiver-feedback. In verbal
or spoken communication, we have speakers and listeners who receive
verbal messages from each other.
Verbal communication
cited different types of meaning based
on the distinctive signals that indicate how words used and sentences formed differ in meaning from
the other words and sentences in the language.
Madrunio, et. al. (2011, p. 30 citing Flowerdew and Miller in 2005)
the signals for this type of meaning are distinctive sounds that
are put together to form a meaningful item.
Phenomenological Meanings
the distinctive signal lies not in the sound itself, because there are some
words that have the same sound but have different spellings and meanings.
Semantic Meanings
refers to your knowledge of grammatical rules. It involves the use of
correct word order and the difference in meaning that results in the change in the structure of
a sentence.
Syntactic Meanings
this considers not just the words, but also the context/situation and the
relationship of the communicators to arrive at the meaning of the utterances.
Pragmatic Meanings
is an integral part of the communication
process. The way a person positions himself, keeps his hands and tilts his
head all convey much information about the person.
Non-verbal communication
Focus on the “Hidden Language.”
NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION:
2 NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION:
Communicators can reflect their emotions
non-verbal communication can enhance their message more.
3 Categories of Non-Verbal Communication
- Sign language
- Object language-
- Action language-
words and numbers which are transmitted as a message through the use of gestures.
Sign language
represents material objects like clothes, shoes, tools, or art objects.
Object language-
refers to all movement that is not frequently used as signals on cues.
Action language-
5 Functions of Non-verbal Communication
- Repeating
- Contradicting
- Substituting
- Complementing
- Relating and regulating
