HASNA AZIZAH/20202241063/CLASS B

WEEK V CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION

ANALYSIS OF “GERMAN COAST GUARD” IN TERMS OF THE COMPONENTS OF
COMMUNICATION

Components of communication (the process of communication)

1. Source
 1st source: The person with an idea he or she desires to communicate.
In the video, it is seen that, the person who has an idea to communicate is the more
expert/experienced coast guard (the older man with the plump body).
 2nd source: The person that called the coast guard trainee.

2. Encoding
The idea was encoded into words. In the 1st event the words were being spoken by the
older experienced coast guard. In the 2nd event, the words were being spoken by the
person on the ship through the radio. The people on the ship were actually saying “We are
sinking, we are sinking.”

3. Message
 Some instructions and brief explanation on how to use the device in the coast
guard room.
 The situation of the people on the ship : it seemed that they were sinking.

4. Channel
 1st channel: The channel of communication between the experienced coast guard
and the novice coast guard was the light and sound waves of face-to-face
communication.
 2nd channel: the channel of communication between the person on the ship and
the novice coast guard was by electronic device (it seemed like a specialized radio
used for marine purpose).

5. Noise
Semantic noise could be found in communication between the people on the ship and the
novice coast guard. There was such a language barrier between them. It’s because the
people on the ship spoke in English, and the novice coast guard didn’t understand English
very well.

6. Receiver
The reciever of both communications was the coast guard trainee.
7. Decoding
 The coast guard trainee thought that the people on the ship said “We are thinking,
we are thinking.”
8. Receiver response
 The German coast guard trainee got ready to apply the instructions given from the
older experienced coast guard.
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 The German coast guard asked the people called on the ship “What are you
thinking?”
9. Feedback
The feedback was difficult to be seen. The coast guard trainee didn’t even get the point of
information that said by the people on the ship, hence he couldn’t do any appropriate
feedback.

10. Context
 The communication takes place in the coast guard office.
 Social relationships were between the experienced coast guard and the coast guard
trainee.
 Social relationships were also between the people on the ship and the coast guard
trainee.
 The culture, German language and English language.