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GAME
COMMUNE+ KNEE+
CUSHION
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COMMUNICATION
NUN+ VEER+ BALL
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NON- VERBAL
ENTER+ PUR+ SUE+ NULL
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INTERPERSONAL
SEA+ MAN+ THICK+ NICE
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SEMANTIC NOISE
CON+ VEER+ SAY+
SHAUN
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CONVERSATION
HISS+ STORY+ CALL+
CAN’T+ EX
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HISTORICAL CONTEXT
COME+ PAW+ NTHs
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COMPONENTS
THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS AND
ITS COMPONENTS
What is communication?
The process of sharing meaning in any context.
Systematic process in which people interact with and
through symbols to create and interpret meanings.
Context: the setting in which
communication occurs. Participants: Messages: encoded or
people decoded information
Physical – temperature,
communicating- in the communication
lighting, noise level
process.
Social- relationship that the sender and
exists between and among receiver.
participants
Historical- background Sender- form
provided by the previous messages and
Channels: both route
communication send them.
traveled by the message and
Psychological- moods and Receiver-
the means of
feelings processes the
transportation. (Verderber,
message and
Cultural context- beliefs, 1999)
reacts to them.
values, norms Sound (Verbal symbols)
Light (non- verbal cues)
Noise: anything that
interferes communication.
External- sights, sounds Feedback: responses to
and other stimuli in the messages
environment, e.g. Re- encoded
students laughing out Improves communication
loud.
Internal- thoughts and
feelings, e.g.
daydreaming.
Semantic- unintended
meanings aroused by
certain symbols.
Functions of Communication
What is Ethics?
Values that have been instilled in us, we have knowingly or unknowingly accepted them and
govern our actions.
According to Berko (1995) communicators or speaker should:
1. Speaks with sincerity,
2. Does not knowingly expose an audience to falsehood or half- truths that can
cause significant harm,
3. Does not premeditatedly alter the truth,
4. Presents the truth as she or he understands it,
5. Raises the listeners level of expertise by supplying the necessary facts,
6. Employs message that is free from mental as well as physical coercion,
7. Does not invent or fabricate information,
8. Gives Credit to the source of information.
ASSESSMENT