Functions of Communication

• What are the different functions of communication?

  Regulation or Control

  Social Interactions

  Motivation

  Information

  Emotional Expression
• 2 type of motivation!

  Internal

  External
• If the speaker's purpose is to control others by managing their behavior, then the speaker is using what function:

  Regulation/Control
• This function is the most familiar and the primary reason why people communicate.

  Social Interactions
• This is the function you use when your goal is to persuade or try to persuade another person to change his or her opinion, attitude, or behavior.

  Motivation
• This function is used when the speaker wants to make others aware of certain data, concepts, and processes- knowledge that may be useful to them.

  Information
• If the purpose is to move another person to action -more than regulation and control, or motivation--then the speaker uses this type of function:

  Emotional Expression
• (Receiving messages that include pictures of the devastation brought about by a typhoon such as Yolanda, or photos of children dying or crying because of hunger, the receiver of the message cannot help but be moved to do something: donate money, clothes, food, and water, or even volunteer to help build new houses for the victims.) This is an example of what type of function of communication:

  Emotional Expression