Discuss in detail the important key elements of Communication MA RD SEM 2
Communication may be referred to as the process of human beings responding to the symbolic behavior of other persons. To understand the process we first need to talk about the following elements of communication.
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Sender and Receiver
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Message encoding and Message decoding
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Filters and Barriers
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Psychological noise and Physiological Noise
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Communication Channels
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Feedback
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Communication Environment or context
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Sender- The person or persons responsible for creating a message to be sent is typically understood as a sender in a communication process.
Example: A politician giving a speech, a parent lecturing a child.
Receiver- The person or persons who are receiving the created messages are referred to as
receivers in a communication process.
Example: An audience receives the politician’s speech, The child is the recipient of the
parents lecture.
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Communication channel: The medium through which a sender or a receiver uses to send his or her message is termed as communication channel.
Channels may be verbal or non-verbal or of any other form of language.
Example: Speech is a channel.
Writing is a channel.
Non-verbal gestures are channels.
Voice tones are channels.
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Encoding-When a sender attempts to replicate his or her internal thoughts or feelings into some kind of external message or medium for the sake of transmitting those thoughts or feelings to another person or persons then the whole process can be called as encoding.
Example:
One good thing about courses in Human communication studies often contain public speaking component, in addition to writing component.
English, History, Sociology, Psychology… only writing, no speaking.
But remember what text said about what employers are looking for:
Only 90 percent of the personnel officials at five hundred US Businesses stated that oral communication skills play a bigger role in career achievement than technical competence, experience, or academic background.
Of course, technical skill, experience, education important, but if you can’t communicate your knowledge, ideas, arguments to others…
Technical skill and experience aren’t worth much.
Many college courses teach written encoding skills… But this course focuses primarily on oral encoding skills…
Which are at least equally if not more important than writing skills.
And I’m not just talking about public speaking.