Unit 1. The Communication Process
¿What is Communication?
is
The ability and process of transmitting information, feelings and experiences to another or others. In all communication there must be a sender, a message and a receiver.
for example
When we talk about living beings, we do not refer only to humans, since from insects to large mammals have this faculty, being man the only being that can communicate orally, while the others do it by sounds (birds, quadrupeds, dolphins, whales), friction of elements of his body (crickets, cicadas) or by action (flight formation of bees,
body position of dogs or deer, swimming formation of fish).
Aristotle defined the study of rhetoric (communication) as the pursuit of "all the means of persuasion at our disposal". He analyzed the possibilities of the other purposes that a speaker may have; however, he made it very clear that the main goal of communication is persuasion, that is, the speaker's attempt to bring others to his own point of view.
The purposes of communication
are
• Neither logically contradictory nor logically unconscious with itself.
• Behavior-centered; that is, expressed in terms of human behavior.
• Specific enough to allow us to relate it to actual communicative behavior.
• Compatible with the ways people communicate.
It has been shown that in large cities, most people spend approximately 70% of their waking time in some form of communication, whether reading, listening, talking or writing.
The Communication Model
The main elements of the communication process:
Emitter
Who sends a message
Message
What is communicated
Channel
Where the message is communicated
Code
Signs used to communicate the message
Context
Relationship that is established between the words of a message and that clarify and facilitate the understanding of what is being expressed.
Effective Communication
Effective communication is based on the establishment of a bridge where the sender has detected the correct object, language and content, knowing beforehand who the receiver is and foreseeing what his feedback will be (doing the right things correctly).
When communication is effective:
The receiver understands what the sender meant.
The receiver responds to the sender.
Certain Concepts
Communication
is
The faculty and process of transmitting to others,
information, feelings and experiences to others.
for example
Convey a message.
Language
is
Set of means that allow human beings to express their thoughts, feelings and
human beings to express their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
for example
Oral, written, by signs, for the deaf, drawings, gestures, etc.
deaf, drawings, gestures, etcetera.
Language
is
One of the specific forms of language.
language. Its nature is essentially oral; however, when perpetuated by writing it becomes language.
For example
Spanish, English, French, indigenous
French, indigenous dialects, musical notation, etcetera.
Speak to
is
Each person's individual use of his or her
of his or her language.
For example
A woman's speech, a man's
speech of a man, etc.
Language
is
Official language of a country.
For example
Spanish, English, French,
etc.
Feedback
The concept of feedback is taken from mechanics. Norbert Wiener, who was the inventor of cybernetics, defined this concept as any method used to control a system, reinserting into it the results of its previous activity. Over time, this concept has been broadened to include in its meaning almost everything that occurs in communication processes and that serve to regulate, rather than control, the behavior of people communicating.
This feedback tool is fundamentally useful for:
- Validate the initial communication, i.e., so that the person who made the communication can control how it was received and know what the real validity was for the other person.
- Imparting meaning and direction to subsequent behavior.
- Stimulate changes in behavior, attitude, feelings, perception, etc. in the person who initiated the communication.
Receiver
Who receives the message
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