Lesson 1- Types of Speech Context

A.Intrapersonal Communication

It is a self-centered kind of communication with

only the speaker as the sender and receiver. The
message is made up of the speaker’s ideas and
emotions in which the channel is his brain that
processes them.

The widely used model of intrapersonal

communication is the Wisemann and Barker self
communication framework. According to them,
intrapersonal communication is, “creating,
functioning and evaluation of symbolic processes
which operate within the originating or responding
communicator.” (1974, cited by Bulan and De Leon
, 2002).

The process is taking place in the intrapersonal

communication is internal since the eight stages
identified in this framework are happening within the
individual’s brain.

B.Interpersonal - communication is the process by

which people exchange information, feelings, and
meaning through verbal and non-verbal messages:
it is face-to- face communication.

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 Interpersonal communication is not just about
what is actually said - the language used - but how
it is said and the non-verbal messages sent through
tone of voice, facial expressions, gestures and body
language.

Kinds of Interpersonal Communication

1. Dyad- this is the most basic kind of interpersonal
communication by which two persons mutually
share information, ideas or even arguments.

2. Small Group- refers to a group small enough in

size to facilitate every member’s interacting with
every other member’s interacting with every
other member and whose members perceive
themselves as a cooperative unit, create a
structure of role relationships and develop a
normative patterns of relating to one another.
(Buerkel- Rothfuss, 1985)

C. Public Communication- involves a single

speaker, who in a relatively formal tone and
manner, presents a continuous, uninterrupted,
informative, persuasive or entertaining discourse of
supposedly general interest to a sizable number of
other persons. (Bulan and De Leon, 2002).

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