COMM 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Paralanguage, Shared Experience, Axiology
19 Oct 2016
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Special occasion speaking (weddings, key note speeches) may be prevalent. About 70% of jobs involve some form of public speaking. Top ceos recommend that great leaders must be able to effectively communicate ideas, persuade, support, negotiate and converse in public. Helps in listening effectively and critical thinking. Developed by shannon and weaver for bell laboratories. Channel: the apparatus for carrying the message (phone, tv) Receiver: the person who picks up the message. Not applicable to face to face communications. Encoding: the process of taking an idea or mental image and associating that image with words, and then speaking those words to convey a message. Decoding: listening to words, thinking about them and turning them into a mental image. Communicator: all of the people in the interaction/speech setting. Used in place of the sender and receiver. Nonverbal behavior: observations of people"s body language to gauge their understanding; feedback. Channel: the means through which a message travels.
