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Day 1 - Communication and Its Elements

The document discusses the key elements of communication: 1. Communication involves a source conveying a message through a channel to a receiver. It is a process of understanding and sharing meaning. 2. There are eight main elements of communication: source, message, channel, receiver, feedback, environment, context, and interference. 3. Feedback is critical as it allows the receiver to respond to the source, making communication a two-way process. The environment and context provide important context around a communication exchange.

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Day 1 - Communication and Its Elements

The document discusses the key elements of communication: 1. Communication involves a source conveying a message through a channel to a receiver. It is a process of understanding and sharing meaning. 2. There are eight main elements of communication: source, message, channel, receiver, feedback, environment, context, and interference. 3. Feedback is critical as it allows the receiver to respond to the source, making communication a two-way process. The environment and context provide important context around a communication exchange.

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Communication and Its

Elements
Prof. Bob Nathanael
IFIM Law School
Communication

Communication is a way by which meaningful messages can be


conveyed across people to convey ideas.
Any kind of medium may be used by communication to convey the
message.
Communication is defined as the process of understanding and
sharing meaning.
The process keeps changing all the time and cannot be defined.
The process

• The concept of the process has a change in feedback, change in perspective, or


any other relevant change which impacts the existing situation.
• For example, when you travel to the office from home, your process changes because
your perspective changes since you interact with a different set of people.
• The next part of the definition of communication is understanding.
Understanding means to comprehend or interpret.
• You will be able to understand a movie more clearly than merely watching non-
moving pictures without explanation or sound.
• The last part of the definition is sharing. When you do something together with
one or more people, then it can be termed as sharing.
Importance of communication

• Right from our home to our workplace, there is communication everywhere.


• Communication makes conveying the thoughts easier and helps to understand the
perspective of another person.
• Learning would stop without communication since you cannot teach anyone
without the use of text, pictures, sound, or sign language.
• There would be no exchange of ideas or thoughts without communication, and
businesses would not be able to sustain, and neither could people.
Elements of Communication

Following are eight different components of communication

1. Source
• The source is the creator of the message as it initiates the message and sends it to the sender.
• A person talking to a group of people can be considered as a source of speech.
• The source conveys the message with the help of verbal as well as non-verbal
communication.
• Sometimes written and visual types of communication may also be involved.
• The primary objective of the source is to convey the thoughts or ideas to the receiver.
2. Message (subject matter)
• The actual context of communication is a message which is the formalized structure of
communication.
• A group of pictures may be kept together to convey a story, or a couple of letters are put together
to convey a message.
• The message’s intention is dependent on the tone, voice modulation, and way the messages are
conveyed to the other person.
• Different elements come into play in various types of communication.
• For example, tone, voice modulation will matter in verbal communication, while the grammar and
punctuation matter in written communication.
• In the case of non-verbal communication, your gestures and body language matter.
• In the case of visual communication, the pictures, its settings, and visual quality will matter.
3. Channel
• The method in which the messages are communicated from one point to the other.
• Channels are essential to convey the message from the source to the destination.
• If the message is not transmitted, then the desired action will not be taken.
4. Receiver
• The receiver is the one who receives the message from the sender.
• The receiver can be considered as the termination point of the communication process or
originating source for the feedback process of the communication.
• The receiver can see, feel, hear, touch, or appropriately analyze the message sent by the
sender depending on the type of communication.
• Both the receiver and the sender must be on similar lines so they can understand the message.
• The entire purpose of the communication fails if the sender and receiver are not able to
understand each other.
• There could be many differences between the sender and receiver, and for optimum
communication to happen, those differences should be as low as possible.
5. Feedback
• After receiving the message, the receiver comprehends the message.
• The feedback is then sent from the receiver to the sender.
• During this time, the receiver becomes the sender, and the sender becomes the
receiver because feedback travels from receiver to sender.
• The existence of feedback suggests that communication is a two-way process.
• Feedback will depend on the message initially sent from the sender.
6. Environment
• The atmosphere in which we receive the message is called an environment.
• The environment may include surrounding equipment, objects, climate, and other things
present.
• A theatre packed with an audience can also be considered as the environment.
• For example, going to a party will have a dress code one different for coming to an
office.
• In such cases, not only the dressing but also communication depends on the
environment.
• It is essential to understand your environment before you start communicating.
7. Context
• The context is where the setting or scene of communication takes place.
• For example, business discussions such as presentations take place in a group of
people and the context is formal.
• Context is about how people expect you to be in specific settings.
• Typically, environmental cues are used to create those expectations.
8. Interference
• Interference is another term for noise that is present in the communication process.
• The primary function of noise is to block or create an obstacle in communication so
that the intended message is either half reached or not reached at all to the receiver.
• For example, if a baby cries in a theatre during the climax of a movie, your attention is
disturbed, and the intended message of the movie does not reach you.
• While this is an example of external noise, there is also an internal noise that is
present in ourselves.
• Thoughts occupied in your mind when doing work is called psychological noise.
• These thoughts interrupt your work more often than you can imagine.
• If not for these psychological interferences, all of us would have been productive at
least ten times more than we are right now.
• Another type of noise is when the message is communicated to you clearly, but your
mind interprets it differently.
• For example, an invitation card says, “Black tie only,” and a significant interference
would be detected in the person if he wore ‘only’ a black tie to the party.
Thank you!

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