Public Speaking Skills

Components of Communication


  1. People
  2. The message
  3. The channel
  4. Feedback
  5. Encoding and decoding
  6. Noise

  • People

  1. People are involved in the human communication process in two rules- as the source and the receivers of the message.
  2. A source initiates a message and the receiver is the intended target of the message.
  3. Individual characteristics after the way people send and receive message.

  • The message 

  1. Verbal and non verbal form of idea, thought or feeling that the source wishes to communicate to another person or group of people.
  2. Messages also include facial expression, bodily movements, gestures, physical contact, tone of voice and other verbal codes.

  • The channel

  1. The means by which message moves from the source to the receiver of the message.
  2. The message moves from one place to another by travelling, through a medium, or channel.
  3. Airwaves, sound waves, twisted copper wires, glass fibres, and cable are all communication channels.

  • Feedback

  1. The receivers verbal and non verbal response to a sources message.
  2. Feedback is part of any communication situation.
  3. Even no response, or silence is feedback.

  • Encoding and decoding 

  1. code: we converse with a code called language. A code is a systematic arrangement of symbols used to create meanings in the mind of another person or person word phrases, and sentences become 'symbols' that are used to evoke images, thoughts,and ideas in the mind of others.
  2. Verbal and non verbal codes: two types of codes used in communication.
  3. Verbal codes- symbols and their grammatical arrangements.
  4. Non verbal codes- all symbols that are not words including bodily movements, use of space and time clothing and sounds etc. other than words.
  5. Encoding- the process of translating and idea or thought into a code.
  6. Decoding- the process of assigning meaning to the idea or thought in a code.

  • Noise

  1. Any interferance in the encoding and decoding processes that reduces message clarity.
  2. Noise can be physical, such as loud sounds, distracting sights etc.
  3. Noise can be mental, psychological, or semantic, such as day dreaming, pain, worries, or uncertainity of what the other persons means.









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