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 well-intentioned 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

• Anything that stands for an idea and is used for communication

1. Verbal (spoken words)

2. Written (words)

3. Nonverbal (gestures, eye contact, etc.)

4. 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

ReceiverMessage

Noise

Sender

Feedback

Context

• 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

ReceiverMessage

Noise

Sender

Feedback

Context

What are these parts?

• 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

Sender/

Receiver

Noise

Sender/

Receiver

Context

Message / Feedback

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

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.