COM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Headache, Eardrum, Brail

• School: URI
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COM 100
• Professor: Martha Waitkun

Document Summary

Communication: a transactional process of sending and receiving messages through verbal and nonverbal symbols to convey a meaning. Sender: sending to receiver (transactional means sending and receiving at the same time, ongoing) (encoding set of symbols) Receiver: sends message back to sender (transactional means sending and receiving at the same time, ongoing) (properly decodes the message the sender encoded) Verbal: has meaning, words, and symbols, stand for something other than themselves, written, brail, and sign language are all verbal. Nonverbal: has meaning but not words, (etc. time, posture, tone of voice, how close you are standing, it"s not what you said it"s how you said it . Channel: what conveys the message, what you use to relate the message to someone else (ex. Face to face, texting, email, calling, skype, face book, art, etc. ), (ex. typically don"t use texting for breakups) The more senses you use, the richer the channel (ex.