What is Communication?

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

6. Symbols • Anything that stands for an idea and is used for communication • Verbal (spoken words) • Written (words) • Nonverbal (gestures, eye contact, etc.) • Other (clothing, signs, etc.)

7. What other symbols can you think of? • Write down 3 others in your notebook.

8. Communication as Transaction • Shannon-Weaver model (1948) • Back and forth, like a Ping-Pong game= linear Context Noise Sender Receiver Message Feedback

9. What are these parts? • 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 Context Noise Sender Receiver Message Feedback

10. 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

11. Encode & Decode • Encode: a process of translating ideas, feelings, and thoughts into symbols • Decode: a process of translating incoming information into understandable concepts

12. Communication as Interaction • Simultaneous; even as we talk we are reacting • Most accurate to our communication process • intercultural Context Noise Sender/ Receiver Sender/ Receiver Message / Feedback

13. 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.

14. Review • Com. as Transaction: receiver responds to the sender through feedback • Com. as Interaction: simultaneously interactive

15. 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: • 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.) • Draw a cartoon that uses communication and label the parts. • Create a math equation for all three communication processes. • Act out a scene of communication and label the parts during the scene.