1. Communication Process
Chapter 2
Communication Process

2. Components of Comm. Process
Context - The people, occasion, & task.
Physical Environment - Your surroundings are. Affects interaction & setting.
Climate - Emotional, attitudinal, and intellectual tone.

3. Communicator - speaker creates meaning, sends and receives msg’s, & exchanges meanings.
Message - meaning, feeling, & general energy from communicators.
Channel - space where the message must pass. Method of sending the message.

4. Noise - interferes or disrupts communication.
Internal – inside of the communicator.
External – distraction of the physical environment.
Barrier - blocks communication.
Feedback - assures communication has occurred. Allows you to modify or adjust your message. Provides insight.

5. The Communicator
Sender-Receiver: the person who sends the message to someone. Also processes feedback given.
Receiver-Sender: person who receives the message. Obtains & provides feedback.

6. Sender-Receiver
Sensory Perception – taking in data of the message though the 5 senses.
Encoding – mental process of assigning meaning and language to data.
Transmitting – physical process of sending verbal & nonverbal messages.

7. Components of a Message
Content –the information.
Feeling – when you respond, you send your feelings along with the actual text.
Relationship – how well you know or don’t know each other affects the interpretation of messages.