ORCOM1-4

• Communication - two way process of receiving and giving information with mutual understanding
• 1. The message should be understood

  • Clear message
  • Should have the same meaning to both receiver and sender
• 1. Communication is social interaction

  • Sharing of experiences 
• Sender converts her thoughts to signals

  Sender sends the signal

  Sender sends the signal through channel

  Receiver hear the signals through ears

  Receiver converts signals to thoughts

  Receiver send feedback
• The sender and receiver’s roles are exchanged frequently
• 1. Sender - converts thoughts into symbols 
• 1. Receiver - converts symbols to thoughts 
• The symbol should have the same meaning for both sender and receiver
• • The sender divides the symbols to chunks so that the receiver can better understand
• 1. Message - ideas or thoughts 
• • Schema - culture + experience 
  • Also called “the field of experience”
  • To have a bigger chance of correct interpretation
• Verbal & nonverbal

  • Symbols - observable signals transmitted
  • Verbal symbol - comes from the mouth
  • Nonverbal symbol - comes from other than the mouth
• 1. Channel - the medium 

  • noise - reduces the quality of the signal and weakens the communication
• Feedback - transmitted by the receiver / so that the sender can make adjustments to their thoughts
• 1. Intrapersonal - talking to yourself
• 1. Interpersonal - talking to 2 or more people 
• • Dyad - communication between 2 people 
• Small group - communication between 3 or more people
• Public - communicating with a large group of people
• Model - description of a phenomenon or abstract process
• 1. Roman jackobson - influential linguistic in the 20th century

  • Pioneered the development structural analysis for language
• • Adresser - sender
  • Adresse - receiver 
  • Context - situation
  • Message - idea
  • Contact - channel 
  • Code - form of the message
• • Cognitive - information
  • Emotive - feelings 
  • Conative - commands
  • Phatic - check communication
  • Metalingual - language itself 
  • Poetic - imaginative expression 
• 1. Ferdinand de saussure - father of modern synchronic language 

  • Said that brain triggers sound pattern in the brain 
• • Sound pattern - actual pronunciation of words
  • Sound - sound pattern in the brain
• 1. Claude shannon - american mathematician who laid out the development for information theory in 1948
• • Information source - produces message 
• • Transmitter - produces signal that suitable for transmission 
• • Channel - the medium used to transmit signal 
• Receiver - performs inverse operation
• • Destination - person or things for whom the message is 
• Noise - lower the quality of message 
• • Physiological noise - problem with the health of the person
• • Semantic noise - when the person doesn't understand what he or she is saying or hearing
• • Environmental noise - problem with the environment 
• 1. David K. Berlo - published el processo de la communicacion / the process of communication
• Berlo’s SMCR model
• The sender - sends message
• • The message - particular structure in a particular form
• • The channel - observes the message