Nature and Elements of Communication

Communication comes from the Latin word "communis" which means

• to impart

• meal

• common

• government

According to Blackburn, communication is the transmission and reception of information between a human source and receiver using a signaling system, which we call

• message

• language

• signal

• noise

What is the last part of the process of communication?

• The brain sends out thoughts to the mouth.

• Feedback happens.

• There is noise in the channel.

• The receiver hears the message through the ears.

Receivers hear the signals and convert the symbols into their thoughts through the process called

• codification

• recoding

• filtering

• decoding

Your mind can send out messages because they come from your prior knowledge of something which is called

• schema

• field of experience

• symbol

• signals

Feedback enables the sender

• to avoid interruption from any party

• to talk continuously

• to make adjustments to the message he or she sent

• none of the above

When you talk to yourself, that is

• intrapersonal communication

• interpersonal communication

• public communication

• intercultural communication

It is a language or way of communicating which is used between people who do not speak one another's native language.

• second language

• lingua franca

• bilingualism

• foreign language

It is considered one way process where sender is the only one who sends message and receiver doesn’t give feedback or response.

• Interactive

• Interpersonal

• Transnational

• Linear

In Shannon-Weaver's model of communication, the sender and encoder and the decoder and receiver are just the same.

• True

• False