INTERPERSONAL

COMMUNICATION
-PoojA Ramesh Gadekar
FYMMS
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What is
Interpersonal
Communication?
 Interpersonal communication is
3 the process by which people
exchange information, feelings,
and meaning through verbal and
non-verbal messages: it is face-to-
face communication
 ▸ Verbal

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What are
▸
▸
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Non verbal
Listening skills
Written
the four Example of good interpersonal
types of communication skills
communic • Negotiation
ation?
• Problem Solving
• Decision Making
• Building Rapport etc
 1. Linking function

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2. Mentation function and
3. Regulatory function.

Functions of Linking Function:-

Interpersonal Connects a person with his or her environment.
communication

Mentation function:-x`
The mentation function helps us conceptualize, remember,
and plan.

Regulatory function:-
The regulatory function serves to regulate our own and other’s
behavior.
 The essential factor is there should be a message and it should be send

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by the sender and it should be received by the receiver.

Factors of
Interpersonal
Communication
 • There are certain elements involved in the process Interpersonal

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communication, they are as follows:-

The Communicators:-
The communicators refer to the sender and the receiver. The sender is the person who
sends the message and receiver is the person who receives the message. For the
occurrence of Interpersonal communication there should be at least two individuals,
one to send the message and other to receive the message.
The Message:-
It is the idea conveyed through speech, facial expression, body language, tone of
voice, gestures and other verbal and non-verbal means. The non-verbal means have
the ability to bear additional information such as the persons attitude and interests.
Noise:-
Noise refers to any sort of distortion causes to the message while it is sent. The noise
causes differences in what is received from what is sent.
 Context:-

8 How the message is being interpreted is mostly depend on the context

he receives the message. The process of communication is influenced
by the context it occurs.

Channel:-
Channel is the means through which communication happen. The
message is sent and received through the channel. It is also referred
as the medium through which message transmitted. The speech and
vision are the channels in a face to face communication whereas the
cable or electromagnetic waves in a communication through
telephone.
 Joe texts Rachel “I am throwing a party tonight,

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Example on
please come” when they were in class and Rachel
replied texting “I am in”.
Here
element of Sender – Joe
Interpersonal Receiver – Rachel
Communication
Message – ‘I am throwing a party tonight’
Noise – All the barriers which occurred
Feedback – ‘I am in’
Context – Class, emotional situation of Joe and
Rachel
Channel – Mobile phone.
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