The document outlines the basic elements of the communication process. It identifies the key elements as the message, medium, sender, and receiver. The message consists of ideas and feelings represented through verbal and non-verbal symbols. The medium or channels are how the message travels between sender and receiver. Feedback and noise can also impact effective communication. Additional elements like setting and participants provide further context.
The document outlines the basic elements of the communication process. It identifies the key elements as the message, medium, sender, and receiver. The message consists of ideas and feelings represented through verbal and non-verbal symbols. The medium or channels are how the message travels between sender and receiver. Feedback and noise can also impact effective communication. Additional elements like setting and participants provide further context.
The document outlines the basic elements of the communication process. It identifies the key elements as the message, medium, sender, and receiver. The message consists of ideas and feelings represented through verbal and non-verbal symbols. The medium or channels are how the message travels between sender and receiver. Feedback and noise can also impact effective communication. Additional elements like setting and participants provide further context.
The document outlines the basic elements of the communication process. It identifies the key elements as the message, medium, sender, and receiver. The message consists of ideas and feelings represented through verbal and non-verbal symbols. The medium or channels are how the message travels between sender and receiver. Feedback and noise can also impact effective communication. Additional elements like setting and participants provide further context.
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BASIC ELEMENTS OF THE
COMMUNICATION PROCESS • Communication, as a process where people share information, feelings and ideas, consists of four basic elements: the message, the medium, the sender and the receiver. Basically, communication happens when a message is conveyed. In the process, there is the means by which such message is conveyed, the generator and the communicator of the message, and the recipient to whom that message is intended. • However, due to the complexity of the communication process, these elements may be modified and detailed in several ways. • According to Alberts et al. (2007), there are present six basic elements of communication: the setting, participants, message creation, channels, noise and feedback to explain how communication interaction unfolds. SENDER-RECEIVER Communication means that the sender and the receiver get involved in communication because they have ideas and feelings to share. This sharing however, is not one-way. In most communication situations, people are senders and receivers at the same time. They are the participants in a communication. MESSAGE • The message is made up of ideas and feelings that the senders/receivers want to share. Moreover, ideas and feelings can only be shared if they are represented by symbols. Symbols are things that stand for something else. All communication messages are made up of two symbols: verbal and non-verbal. The verbal symbols are all the words “MESSAGE” in a language, which stand for a particular thing or idea. A word is VERBAL used to generally mean one thing. Verbal symbols can be even more complicated when they are abstract than concrete. Abstract symbols stand for ideas rather than objects. When two people use abstraction (e.g., love, beauty, justice), they may have different meanings because they had different experiences with the concept. -The non-verbal symbols are “MESSAGE” anything we communicate NON-VERBAL without using words such as facial expressions, gestures, postures, colours, vocal tones, appearance, etc. They have certain meanings attached to them, which are culturally or even personally encoded and decoded. The Channels are routes CHANNELS traveled by a message as it goes between the senders/receivers. Sound and sight are primary channels in face-to-face communication, and even in not face-to-face. In Mass media the Channels may be Radio, Records, Television, Newspapers, Magazine, etc. FEEDBACK A feedback is a response of the receiver to the sender and vice versa. This is very important in communication since it tells how ideas and feelings have been shared in the way they are intended to. NOISE Noise keeps a message from being understood or accurately interpreted. It occurs between senders and receivers. Noise may be an external or internal interference in transmitting and receiving the message. External noise is any noise that comes from the environment that keeps the message from being heard or understood. Internal noise occurs in the minds of the senders and receivers such as prior experience, absent- mindedness, feeling or thinking of something other than the communication taking place. Semantic noise is also a form of internal noise caused by people’s emotional reactions to words. The setting is essentially the context where communication occurs. It may be venue, formal or informal seating arrangements, attire, SETTING use of sound system, etc. Who (Sender) What (Message) How (Medium) To Whom (Receiver) Why (Impact) Where (the Context)