Scribd
Upload
61 views4 pages

Week 1 Speech and Theater Arts

This document provides an overview of speech and communication. It defines communication as a two-way process of transmitting messages between people that influences their behavior. Communication involves both verbal and non-verbal elements. The key aspects of communication discussed are that it is a process where a sender encodes a message and sends it through a channel to a receiver, who then decodes it and provides feedback. Speech communication specifically refers to the production and perception of sounds used in spoken language. Listening is also emphasized as an important part of communication, as it allows the listener to provide feedback and actively participate. Language is presented as the primary means of human communication, with its defining properties including being systematic, arbitrary, rule-governed, generative,

Uploaded by

Mercy P. Ybanez
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
61 views4 pages

Week 1 Speech and Theater Arts

This document provides an overview of speech and communication. It defines communication as a two-way process of transmitting messages between people that influences their behavior. Communication involves both verbal and non-verbal elements. The key aspects of communication discussed are that it is a process where a sender encodes a message and sends it through a channel to a receiver, who then decodes it and provides feedback. Speech communication specifically refers to the production and perception of sounds used in spoken language. Listening is also emphasized as an important part of communication, as it allows the listener to provide feedback and actively participate. Language is presented as the primary means of human communication, with its defining properties including being systematic, arbitrary, rule-governed, generative,

Uploaded by

Mercy P. Ybanez
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
You are on page 1/ 4

Week 1 Speech and Theater Arts

Topic : Concept of Speech and Communication


Communication - is a dual or two- way process of transmitting messages from
one person to another. It is the symbolic interaction between two or more
people that influences each other’s behavior.
Communication means getting the message across. It involves not only verbal, or
the word we use or speak, but also non- verbal, or non- linguistic symbols also
known as para language.

The word communication originated from the Latin word communicare, which
means to imports, to share or made known.

Communication is a process where a sender encodes and imports information via


a channel or a medium to sa receiver, who then decodes and provides the sender
the feedback.

Speech Communication involves the production and perception of sounds used in


spoken languages. It is also called oral communication.
Listening is important in communication by providing verbal and non -verbal
feedbacks or both the listener becomes an active participant in the
communicative process.
Language is the man’s most effective medium of communication. It has but one
purpose: to serve as the code for the transmission of messages between and
among people.

1
PROPERTIES OF LANGUAGE.
1. It is systematic- Language is a highly organized system of sounds, words and
sentences in which each unit plays an important part.

2. It is arbitrary. There is no necessary connection between the sounds people


use and the objects to which these sounds refer.

3. It is rule- governed. These rules that govern the use of a language are
embodied in what is called the grammar of the language.

4. It has a dual structure. The language is a system consisting of two


subsystems: The subsystem of sound and the subsystem of meaningful
units.

5. It is generative. This refers to the speaker’s ability to understand and


produce any number of sentences/ utterances in the native tongue by
recursion or by relativization. That makes language creative and
productive.

6. It is socially learned behavior. It is a skill acquired as one grows up in


society, it is culturally transmitted. A speaker learns the language to which
he is exposed.

7. It is a social interactive tool. Language can not be considered without


communication because it is the very reason for its existence. It is a shared
code that enables its users to transmit feelings, ideas, and desires to one
another because they want to communicate.

2
FUNCTIONS OF COMMUNICATION
1. It connects and brings people together.

2. It enables one to understand the feelings and emotions of another.

3. It is the occasion for sharing of ideas, opinions and experiences.

4. It makes one learn many things and keeps him/her abreast with the times.

5. It bridges, and repairs gaps to foster harmonious relationships.

6. It gives others an opportunity to improve themselves.

7. It is a good exercise in developing mental processes.

8. It provides sound bases for decision making.

9. As a pastime, it eases and helps one find pleasure and entertainment.

10.It is an outlet for pent -up emotions, creativity, and ingenuity.

11.In organizations, it effects change and coordination and makes group


activity possible.

12.It is an important factor in the preservation of a people’s cultural heritage.

3
13.On it depends one’s future success because it makes things happen.

14.It facilitates the meeting of minds.

15.It draws one close to the Creator.

Prepared by:
JANE CACHERO- PADEROG, Ph. D

You might also like