Chapter 1 Foundation of Human Communication

   
       
      What is Human Communication?

• It focus on understanding how people communicate in various ways.

      There have 5 areas of human communication

      Intrapersonal Communication

• Talk with yourself
• Learn and evaluate yourself
• Making decision

                                        


   
      Interpersonal Communication

• Interact with others
• Learn about them and yourself
• Revealed yourself to others

        Small group and organizational communication

• You interact with people
• Solving problem
• Developing new ideas
• Sharing knowledge and experience

      Public Communication

• Inform and persuade

       Mass Communication

• You are entertained, informed and persuaded by media

       Culture and human communication

       Aim of a cultural perspective

• Understand how communication influence
• To distinguish what is universal and what is relative
• Communicate effectively in wide variety of intercultural situations.

       Component of human communication

       Communication context

• Social psychological context - relationship among participants, roles that people play, friendliness or unfriendliness formality or informality, seriousness or humorousness of the situation
• Physical Context - concrete environment in which communication takes place
• Cultural Context - to do with your culture and that of others
• Temporal Context - time of day which communication takes place

       Component

 

 

       Source-receiver

       Two way role that interchanges actively in a conversation


       Source (Encoder)-Encode messages like speaks, write and giving gesture.

       Receiver (Decoder)-Decode message like listen, read and respond



       Messages

       Words, text or body language


       Feedback & Feed forward


       Response and preparation

       Feedback - From listener to speaker

       Feed forward - a pretext to the context like a trailer from a movie


      Channels

      Vocal - Spoken words

      Visual - Hand gestures, body language can be see with eyes

      Olfactory Channel - Smells

      Tactile - Touch


      Noises

      Physical noises - None from transport

      Physiological Noise  - Hearing loss or memory loss

      Psychological Noise - Impressions on people

      Semantic Noise -  Jargons, a word we couldn't understand like APA style


      Effects
    

• Intellectual/Cognitive: changes in your thinking and mind
• Affective: behavioural change 
• Psycho motor: physical behavioural change