The Transactional Model of Communication

- Illustrates how the sender and receiver take turns in conveying

and receiving messages and are called as “communicators.”
The characteristics of Transactional Model
1. Communication evolves from the very first day (origin) until the
existing moment.
2. Communication is largely dependent on its past.
3. Concept of time.
4. Communication process is the product of what we learned.

So to put it in simple terms, Transactional Model of Communication

involves three principles:
1. people send messages continuously and simultaneously
2. communication events that have a past, present, and future, and;
3. participants play certain roles in the conversation.