This document discusses the nature, functions, elements, and models of communication. It defines communication as a human activity that involves the deliberate or accidental transfer of meaning. The document outlines several functions of communication, including informative, instructive, persuasive, motivational, aesthetic, regulatory/control, and social interaction. It also describes elements of the communication process, including the source, message, recipient, medium, feedback, and barriers like physical, physiological, and psychological noise. Finally, the document reviews several models of communication, including source-message-receiver, transactional, field of experience, linear source-message-channel-receiver, circular, and developmental models.

1. Nature, Functions,
Elements and Various
Models of
Communication

2. The English term 'Communication' evolved from Latin
language.
“Communis”is a noun, which means common, communality
or sharing. Similarly, “communicare”is a verb, which means
'make something common'.
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3. Communication is a
HUMAN ACTIVITY.
It is a deliberate or accidental
transfer of meaning
(Gamble & Gamble, 2012)

4. Communication is a complex
process.
Communication as a process is always ongoing
and changing
(Seiler, 1988/2008; Hybels and Weaver, 2009;
Wood, 2009)

5. Communication
pertains to the manner
by which individuals
express and share
themselves to others
through the imparting
of ideas, thoughts,
information, feelings,
experiences, and
opinions.

7. FUNCTIONS OF
COMMUNICATION

8. INFORMATIVE FUNCTION
• To inform other people of what we know
– facts, information, and knowledge.

9. INSTRUCTIVE FUNCTION
• To instruct on what to do, when and
where to do them, and why and how to
do them.

10. PERSUASIVE FUNCTION
• To influence the opinion of
others to believe and accept
your stand or claim on the issue
or a problem.

11. MOTIVATION FUNCTION
• To act and reach their objectives or goals
in life.

12. AESTHETIC FUNCTION
•For pleasure and enjoyment.

13. REGULATION / CONTROL
• To maintain control and over other
people’s attitudes and behaviour.

14. SOCIAL INTERACTION
• To start, maintain, regulate, or even end
relationships with other people.

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18. The source of information or message

19. The information, ideas or thoughts
conveyed by the speaker in words or
in actions

20. The recipient of the
message or someone who
decodes the message

21. The medium or means,
such as personal or
non-personal, verbal or
nob-verbal, in which
the encoded message is
conveyed.

22. The reactions, responses
or information provided
by the listener

23. Any barrier to communication
Physic
al
noise
Physiologi
cal
noise
Psycholog
ical
noise

24. Physical noise
Actual noise such as loud music
or the irritating engine of a
motorcycle.

25. Physiological
noise
When the body becomes a hindrance to
good communication.

26. Psychological
noise
When one deeply thinks about something or
is suffering from emotional condition.

27. Communicative
Situation
The environment where
communication takes place.

29. INSTRUCTIONS:
Develop your own model of communication. Include a two- to three
paragraph description of your model and explain any special
characteristic of it.
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31. Models of
Communication
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• Focused on the SPEAKER and MESSAGE.
* The most important part is SETTING – where the LISTENER
is situated.
• SETTING dictates the MESSAGE

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• This model introduced the concept of NOISE.
* Due to the intervention of noise or anything that hampers
communication, MESSAGE sent by the SOURCE (Speaker)
isn’t necessarily the message received by the
DESTINATION (Listener).

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This model emphasizes that communication can take place if
and only if there is an overlap between the
FIELD OF EXPERIENCE OF THE SPEAKER and FIELD OF
EXPERIENCE OF THE LISTENER
* FIELD OF EXPERIENCE : used to interpret the message and
create a RESPONSE.

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This model is a two-way process with the inclusion
of feedback as one element.

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This model has four major parts : source (S),
message (M), channel (C) and receiver (R). It is
conceived as a linear model.

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This model is circular and continuous, without
beginning or end.

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This model presents the concept of time where
continuousness of communication progresses as an
individual gets older.