function of communication

1. FUNCTIONS OF
COMMUNICATION
Group 3 Presenters:
CORDERO, JULLIANE ISABELLE RIENE
MONISIST, JACKIELYN

2. RULES:
• Listen to the presenter
• Be quiet when the
presenter is talking
• Raise you hand to speak
• Don’t share your answer
and mind your own
business

3. WHAT IS FUNCTION OF
COMMUNICATION?
• Communication functions refers to how
people use language for different
purposes also refers to how language is
affected by different time, place, and
situation used to regulate the nature
and amount of activities people engage
in

4. CONTROL OR REGULATION
SOCIAL INTERACTION
MOTIVATION
EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION
INFORMATION DISSEMINATION

5. CONTROL OR REGULATION
• Communication functions to
control behavior. Every
organization has its own
regulations and these regulation
are communicated to all
members in various ways.

6. EXAMPLE:
Doctor’s Prescription
“Take your medicine 3 times a day.”
Parent’s Instruction to their child
“Wash the dishes now, or else I won’t allow
you to go to the party later.”
Friends giving advice on what to do
“ Move on. He doesn’t love you anymore”

7. SOCIAL INTERACTION
• Communications allows individuals to
interact with others. Because of the
needs to interact daily, people
communicate.

8. EXAMPLE:
• MARRIAGE PROPOSAL
“Will you marry me?”
• INVITATION
“Would you like some coffee, tea or me?”

9. MOTIVATION
• Communication to
motivates or
encourages people to
live better. Motivation is
either internal or
external
INTERNAL
MOTIVATION comes
from within. It is
something personal.
EXTERNAL
MOTIVATION
emanates from the
outside or from people
surrounding him.
Encouraging words
serve to stimulate
people to do better,
that is, to motivate
them in positive way.

10. EXAMPLE:
“I need you in my life”
• “I must trim down my weight for her
• “We need to be proactive and stop
procrastinating.”

11. EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION
• Communication facilitates people’s expression
of their feelings and emotions
• EXAMPLE: When one informs another about
an impending super typhoon, the informer
may express various emotions in different
situations.

12. EXAMPLE:
• Appreciation
“I’m so glad that you came into my life”
• Expressing one’s ambition
“I want to finish up my studies with good
grades to be accepted in a good university”
• Expressing a need
“ I need you in my life “
• Expressing prayers
“We pray for those who suffered a broke
heart from their crush”

13. INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
• Communication functions to convey
information.
• Many events or incidents happen
every day. These occurrences affect
people so they have to be informed
• EXAMPLE:
“Did you know that there’s a secret
apartment at the top of the Eiffel
tower?

14. DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?

15. GET ½ CROSSWISE:
• TRUE or FALSE
• 1) The five functions of communication are
control/regulation, social interaction,
motivation, information, and emotional
expression.
• 2) Regulatory communication refers to giving
orders or directions, making requests or
attempting influence the actions of others, and
accepting or refusing directions
• 3) In social interaction or shared attention with
others, the individual is communicating not only
to meet his/her own desires and needs but also
to socially interact with the people around
him/her
• 4) Emotional function is the fundamental
requirement of being able to adapt and adjust
oneself to environment.
• 5) Information expression function refers to how
one conveys emotional experience through

16. IDENTIFICATION
• 6) It’s a function of communication that
motivates or encourages people to live
better.
• 7) It’s a function of communication that
allows individuals to interact with others.
• 8) It’s a function of communication that
facilitates people’s expression of their
feelings and emotions.
• 9) It’s a function of communication that
control behavior.
• 10) It’s a function of communication that
convey information.