Elements of Communication

• What are the 9 Elements of Communication?

  1. Context
  2. Sender
  3. Encoding
  4. Message
  5. Channel
  6. Noise
  7. Decoding
  8. Receiver
  9. Feedback
• It refers to the environment where the interaction happens or takes place. 

  Context
• What are the 4 forms of context?

  1. Physical
  2. Psychological
  3. Social
  4. Cultural
• It refers to the place where the communication happens or occurs.

  Physical Context
• It is what the communicators bring to the interaction such as their needs, desires, values, personality, etc. The mental state of the person.

  Psychological Context
• It is a personal matter. It involves the relationship of the speaker and the listeners including the expectations involved in that relationship.

  Social Context
• It includes all the learned behaviors and rules that affect the interaction such as the body movements, facial expressions, and practices. It also includes religion, beliefs, laws, and policy.

  Cultural Context
• It is the source of the message that also does the encoding through speaking or writing.

  Sender
• It is the part of transforming abstract opinions and ideas into symbols such as words, pictures, signs, and marks.

  Encoding
• It refers to the information, ideas, feelings, opinions, thoughts, attitudes, and views the sender wants to deliver to the receiver.

  Message
• It refers to the medium or tool to transmit the message.

  Channel
• It is also called the barrier that affects the message from being sent, received, or understood.

  Noise
• What are the 6 forms of noise?

  1. Physical
  2. Physiological
  3. Semantic
  4. Psychological
  5. Technical
  6. Cultural
• It comes from an external source or the environment where the communication is occurring.

  Physical Noise
• It occurs when the communicator is disturbed by their state of health or physiological issues.

  Physiological Noise
• It deals with words and language.

  Semantic Noise
• It occurs as a result of personal attitudes, assumptions, and biases.

  Psychological Noise
• It is present in any form of technology.

  Technical Noise
• It occurs when cultural expectations, etiquette, attitudes, and values differ.

  Cultural Noise
• It is the "process of" translating an encoded symbol into the ordinary understandable language in contrast to the encoder.

  Decoding
• It is the person for whom the message is targeted in contrast to the sender.

  Receiver
• It refers to the response of the receiver or audience. 

  Feedback
• What are the 3 Communication Models?

  1. Linear
  2. Interactive
  3. Transactional Communication
• This model involves a sender, message, channel, and receiver; it has no feedback.

  Linear Model
• In this model, the sender is in total control. It is also the most controlling and most dangerous model.

  Linear Model
• This model is often known as the two-way process. 

  Interactive Model
• This model is the most intimate. It is used by two people and has feedback.

  Interactive Model
• This model is the most challenging and creative. It is used by three or more persons.

  Transactional Communication Model
• This model is simultaneously used.

  Transactional Communication Model
• Communication is?

  • Irreversible
  • Complex
  • Inevitable