Communication
will always play a crucial part in how effectively you live your personal and
professional lives. It increase your own effectiveness in interpersonal, small
group and public speaking. The lecturer, Mr. Anwar Ariffin start the chapter
only on the second class of the week. First class were the interaction between
lecturer and the students to let us get to know each other better. We were
asked to write down in a piece of paper on what does communication mean to us
in our life. A brief introduction on the subject were then explained by the
lecturer.
Introduction
Human communication focus on how people communicate in
various ways. Basically, this subject thought prepare us, students for careers
in the communications field including marketing, public relations, corporate
communication and so on. Communication skill like spoken language, body or
facial language as well as emotions is needed in our everyday lives. Example,
interviewing for a job, ordering the food, asking for direction and many more.
The
Forms of Human Communication
There
are five forms of area of communication.
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Intrapersonal
communication
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It
involve talking to yourself
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Interpersonal
communication
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It
involves interaction between two or more people.
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Small
group and organizational communication
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It
is where you interact with group of people to solve problems, developing new
ideas and sharing of knowledge and experience.
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Public
communication
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It
is a form of communication of speaker and audience to inform or persuade.
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Mass
communication
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People
are entertained, informed and persuaded by the media.
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Culture
and Human Communication
In this lesson, we learned as there are many
cultures in this world, there are various forms of communication that culture
affects the way a person communicates cultures. The aim of cultural perspective
is to influence, distinguish what is universal and what is relative and to
communicate effectively in a wide variety of intercultural situations.
The
Components of Human Communication
The Components of human communication are divided
into two parts:
1. Communication
context
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Social Psychological Context: The
relationships among participants, the roles that people play. It also includes
the friendliness or unfriendliness, formality or informality, seriousness or
humorousness of the situation.
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Physical Context: The concrete environment in which communication
takes place.
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Cultural Context: Beliefs, values and ways
of behaving that are shared.
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Temporal Context: Time of day which the
communication takes place.
2. Components
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Source/Receiver-Source encodes message
and receiver decodes message.
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Message-Included words, body language,
text etc.
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Feedback & Feed forward-Listener
gives feedback to speaker while feed forward is the pretext to the context.
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Channel-Words, Vocal, and Body language
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Noise- Something disrupt message,
including physical noise, psychological noise, and semantic noise.
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Effects-
Intellectual/Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor.
The
Purposes of Human Communication
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To help : To assist others by listening,
offering solutions
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To discover : Learning something new
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To relate : Maintain a relationship with
others
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To persuade : To promote something to
others
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To play : To enjoy the experience of the
moments.
Class
Activity
Mr. Anwar divided us into two groups where one group
represents the deaf and mute while the other represent the blind people. We
were asked to communicate with each other where it is almost impossible for a
person who cannot see to communicate with someone is deaf and mute. Through
this activity, we learnt that communication channels are important for people
to communicate. This activity concluded the whole chapter one in an interesting
way.
