INTRODUCTION TO

HUMAN COMMUNICATION
CMN:201
Session:3
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• Purposes of Human Communication: Discover, To relate,
to help, to persuade to play
• Types of Human Communication
• Intrapersonal: Communication with oneself
• Interpersonal: Communication between 2 persons
• Small group: Communication within a small group of persons
• Public: Communication of speaker with audience
• Mass: Communication addressed to an extremely large audience
mediated by audio and/or visual means
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Components of Communication
•People
•The Message
•The Channel
•Feedback
•Code
•Encoding & Decoding
•Noise
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All communication takes place in a context. They are:
•Physical
•Social-psychological
•Temporal
•Cultural
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COMMUNICATION PRINCIPLES
1. Communication Begins with the Self
• Many communication scholars believe that people are products of
how other people treat them and the messages others send them
• People begin acting according to the way they are treated for
example feeling inferior, intelligent, gifted
• If one imposes rules of communication derived from earlier
experience in 2 distinctive cultures, one is bound to fail
• Each person may believe he or she is right and the other person is
wrong
 2.Communication Involves Others
• Examples such as ventilating with friends and peers, providing
support information sharing involves communicating with others
• Communication is best understood through a dialogic process
• Dialogue: The act of taking part in a conversation discussion and
negotiation
• A competent communicator considers other persons needs &
expectations while selecting the messages to share
 3.Communication has Both Content and
Relational Dimension
• Messages provide substance and suggest a
relationship among communicators
• Content of the message describes the behavior
that is expected
• Relational message suggests how it should be
interpreted
 4. Communication is Complicated
• Communication involves choices about the multiple aspects of the
message. A change in any of the following variables may affect the
communication process:
• Verbal non verbal behavior aspects
• Choices surrounding transmission channels
• Characteristics of the speaker
• Relationship between speaker and audience
• Characteristics of the audience
 5.Communication Quantity does not
increase Communication Quality
• Greater amounts of communication not necessarily lead to harmony
• Sometimes the more people talk it may lead to disagreements and
conflict
• Sometimes people have poor listening and empathy skills and it may
lead to misunderstanding and misinterpreting vast quantities of
information
• Communication simply through verbiage does not necessarily result
in positive outcomes
 6.Communication is Inevitable
• Communication happens every minute of our lives
• We are constantly behaving in ways that have
communicative value for example, staring smiling,
looking or even silence
• We are constantly gathering meanings from other
peoples’ behavior
 7.Communication cannot be Reversed
• A negative comment or insult can linger in someone's mind for a long
time
• Understanding irreversibility of communication can make us be more
cautious in conversations
• Also while preparing public speeches and presentations
 8.Communication cannot be repeated
• Like other experiences communication cannot
be repeated
• For example, someone can repeat dialogues,
conversation but it may yield different results
and the same experience may not be repeated