NATURE AND ELEMENTS

OF COMMUNICATION
Communication in Process
 Impart knowledge
persuade
Share thoughts
talking
Show love and affection
Verbal and non verbal
language

interpretation
connect

COMMUNICATION
COMMUNICATION
-is a systematic process in which individuals
interact with and through symbols to create
and interpret meanings.
-Wood (2004)
• Communication is a process
-it is a creative, continuing condition of life, a process that changes as the
communicators’ environment and needs changes.
• Communication is systematic
-it occurs within systems of interrelated and interacting parts.

• Communication is symbolic
-symbols, verbal , or nonverbal are the basis of language

• Communication involves meanings

-contrary to what many think or believe, meanings are assigned, given, or
invented, not received.
Blended words or mashed ups
-chillax= chill + relax = calm down
-frenemy=friend + enemy = false friend
-bromance = brother + romance = close male friendship
-telegenic = television + photogenic = suitable manner / appearance on
TV.
-emoticon = emotion + icon = digital facial expression
-meld= melt + weld = combined
• Components of communication are linked together as part of one system
and the absence of any one of them can result to ineffective
communication.

• Speaker or sender
• Listener or receiver
• Message
• Medium
• Channel
• Feedback
• Content
• Noise
• Verbal symbols
• Spoken (using voice and speech sounds)
• Written (using letters or characters)

• Nonverbal
• Body language (gesture, facial expressions, eye contact, posture, or touch)
• Voice quality while speaking (tone, pitch, rate, volume, emphasis)
 THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION
• 1st stage- SENDING THE MESSAGE
a. Speaker or sender
b. Message
c. Medium
d. Channel
• 2nd stage-RECEIVING THE MESSAGE
a. Listener/receiver
b. Feedback
c. ContextNoise (interference or distraction)
•is the source of the
message that is encoded
into symbols that are verbal
and / or nonverbal.
•Is any information or anything
the speaker/ sender wants to
communicate by using a
medium.
•Is the form in which the speaker/
sender conveys the message which
may probably be speech,
conversation, letter, email, blog,
newspaper, book and the like,
through a channel.
• Is the mode, method, or means of sending or
expressing the message, which may perhaps
be through any of the five senses.
• It may also be a sound waves in a face-to-
face (in person speaking situation)
• It may also be a digital audio and video
signals in a mediated (with a remote audience
speaking situation)
•Gets the message in the
medium desired through the
chosen channel, and decodes
the message.
•Is the receiver’s response, verbally
or nonverbally-silence included to
the message sent. It is affected by
one’s frame of reference, which is
the sum of one’s persons
knowledge, experience goals,
values, and attitudes.
•Is the situation or the environment
in which communication takes
place, which includes time, place,
event, as well as senders’ and
receivers’ feelings, perceptions,
beliefs, attitude, and relationships.
•Is anything that impedes or get in
the way of accurately sending,
receiving, and interpreting the
message, whether it be internal
(from the sender or receiver), or
external (from the environment)