Exploring The Nature Of Communication

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Functions of speech communication

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1. Self-definition

2. To disseminate ideas and information

3. To debate questions of fact, value, and policy in communities

4. To transform individuals and groups

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Nature of communication

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1. Dynamic process

2. Systemic (contextual, has interrelated parts, whole is more than sum of its parts, constraints)

3. Involves communicators

4. Irreversible

5. Proactive

6. Symbolic interaction

7. Meaning is individually construed

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Models of communication

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1. Aristotelian

2. Lasswell

3. Shannon-Weaver

4. Schramm's

5. Berlo's

6. White's

7. Dance

8. Symbolic Interaction (Wood)

9. Speech Communication Transaction (Gronbeck et al)

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Levels of communication

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1. Intrapersonal

2. Interpersonal

3. Public

4. Mass

5. Organizational

6. Intercultural

7. Developmental

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Types of constraints

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1. Physical

2. Sociopsychological

3. Cultural

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Main features of the Aristotelian model

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1. Speaker

2. Message

3. Audience

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The speaker's quality of persuasiveness

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ethos

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Emotional quality of a speaker

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pathos

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Logical quality of a speaker

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logos

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Key elements in the Lasswell model

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1. communicator (who)

2. message (says what)

3. medium (what channel

4. receiver (to whom)

5. effect

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Key functions of communication (Lasswell)

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1. surveillance

2. correlation

3. transmission

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A model originally designed for telephone communication

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Shannon-Weaver model

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Basic components in the Shannon-Weaver model

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1. information source

2. transmitted

3. receiver

4. destination

5. noise

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Anything that interfered with the message (Shannon-Weaver)

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noise

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Schramm's model that adds in the field of experience

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Second model

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Schramm's model that described the dual role of each communicator in that he is both sender and receiver

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Schramm's third model

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Schramm's model that emphasizes the dynamism of human communication

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Schramm's fourth model

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Factors that influence the source and receiver's personal makeup (Berlo's)

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1. knowledge

2. attitudes

3. communication skills

4. sociocultural system of communicators (all-encompassing)

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Elements of Berlo's model

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1. Source

2. Message

3. Channel

4. Receiver

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Areas that matter in the communicator's message (Berlo's)

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1. content

2. communicator's treatment

3. coding of content

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Five sense in channels of communication (Berlo's)

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1. seeing

2. hearing

3. touching

4. smelling

5. tasting

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Stages of oral communication (White)

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1. Thinking

2. Symbolizing

3. Expressing

4. Transmitting

5. Receiving

6. Decoding

7. Feedbacking

8. Monitoring

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A desire, feeling, or an emotion provides a speaker a stimulus to communicate a need (White)

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Thinking

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code of oral language (White)

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Symbolizing

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vocal mechanism accompanied by facial expression, gestures, adn body stance (White)

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Expressing

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waves of light and sound (White)

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Transmitting

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Listener interprets the language symbols (White)

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Decoding

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Model that asserts that cmmunication is a repetitive, cyclical event but the dynamic quality of interaction is not depicted

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White's model

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Model that presents the speaker as the originator of the communication process and the listener as a passive reactor who does not initiate conversation

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White's model

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Model that acknowledges the complexity of communication as evidenced by the influence of several factors, to include an all-encompassing system (sociocultural framework)

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Berlo's model

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Spiraling figure (Dance)

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Model that signifies the dynamic quality of human communication

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Dance model

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Model that assert that what we say no influences the future

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Dance model

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This model reflects nature of communication as a dynamic, systemic process in which communicators construct personal meanings

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Symbolic Interaction Model (Wood)

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Model that emphasizes the temporal dimensions of communication

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Wood's model

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Used to indicate openness of systems to forces outside of them (Wood)

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Used to mean that there i interrelatedness between systems (Wood)

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Consists of everything making up an individual (Wood)

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phenomenal world

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May come in the form of conditions beyond our control or may also be found in the communicators (Wood)

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constraints

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Components of the Speech Communication Transaction Model

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1. speaker

2. message

3. listeners

4. feedback

5. channels in a particular situation & cultural context

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Key areas a speaker must evaluate himself on every time he communicates (SCT)

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1. purpose

2. knowledge

3. attitude

4. degree of credibility

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A baseline source of healthy attitude towards self and others (SCT)

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self-concept

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Vital aspects of the message (SCT)

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1. content

2. structure

3. style

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Factors that influence how a listener receives and thinks (SCT)

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1. purpose

2. knowledge and interest in the topic

3. level of listening skills

4. attitudes towards self, speaker, and ideas

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A two-way flow of ideas, feeling, and information from listener to speaker, speaker back to listener (SCT)

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Feedback

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Types of channels (SCT)

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1. verbal

2. visual

3. aural or paralinguistic

4. pictorial

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The physical setting and social context in which your speech occurs (SCT)

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Situation

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A particular combination on people, purposes, places, rules, and conventions that interact communicatively (SCT)

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social context

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Level of communication that occurs in the individual

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Intrapersonal

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Communication that takes place between two or more individuals

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Interpersonal

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Two forms of interpersonal communication

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1. dyadic (2 persons)

2. group

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Communication that occurs between a speaker and several listeners

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Public

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Communication that occurs between a speaker and a vast audience/readership/viewership

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Mass

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communication that occurs within the workplace between and among members in order to carry out an org's objectives and purposes

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Organizational

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Communication that occurs in verbal and nonverbal ways to promote understanding and goodwill between and among cultural communities/nations

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Intercultural

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Communication hat occurs between progressive nations and developing societies of the world

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Developmental

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Two modes of speech communication

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1. verbal

2. non-verbal