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Roman Jakobson

Ferdinand de Saussure

Eugene Nida
Components of the
Communication Process
regulates how people communicate

sender

receiver
channel
sender receiver

channel

each act of communication has one dominant function


Signifier

Signified

CONCEPTUAL DIMENSION:
concept or ideas

PHYSICAL DIMENSION:
sound, printed words
brain triggers an actual pronunciation of a sound

Mouth ------- Ears (listener)

Listener’s ears -------decoded in the brain of the


listener

sound produces a sound pattern in the brain,


producing a concept
a person thinks of a concept (c) sound is then transmitted to
another communicator
triggers their sound pattern (c,i)
triggers the sound pattern
utter the concept (phonation)
think of the concept
Eugene Nida’s Model
special message

Source/sender receiver
message

decode encode
special message

Source/sender receiver
message

decode encode

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