The Act of Communication

Communication is an event which

involves persons, instrument
symbols and abstractions.
The people involved in here can be
divided into 2 types, which are
speaker and listener which is have
the same agreement of sets on
concepts and their linguistics
symbols.
Communication has a direction, a
channel and modality.
Direction
 Speaker  listener
Channel (medium)
Air, wires,
Modality
audio modality
visual modality
tactile modality
The message  a system of codes in
which some information is inlaid.
Redundant language  The language
used to decorative the language or
explain something.
 The Speaker-Listener
Polarity
In communication there are two
polarities, which are the speaker and
the listener.
The speaker is equipped with the
competence of a set of languages and
the same is expected of the listener.
The speaker and the listener are two
different kinds of polarities, which make
the communication even more
complex.
The greater importance of the given
communication, the greater the need
to avoid redundancy.
The basic principle in structuring
the content of communication is the
effectiveness, which is to encode
the maximum possible
information in the minimum
possible language elements or
codes.
 Communication: an action between people
(speaker and listener) to send information (called:
transmission of information).

 Aspects of communication  encoding and

decoding  transmission of information possible
(using message)  as vehicle to understand.

 Example: describe about picture or painting, more

easy with the picture than only speak.
 Encoding: a set of concepts  a set of
codes (proper to the speaker)

 Decoding: a set of codes  a set of

concepts (proper to the listener/ the reader)

 In transmission of information, encoding in

the beginning and decoding in the end.

 Swapping of roles as speaker and listener.

 Encoding and decoding help to make

intelligibility is possible in communication.
 Language for purposes of
communication.
 Children use L1 as verbal behavior
(express feeling, talk to people, satisfy
the needs)
 L2 was learned in school.
 Failure about L2:
 To develop techniques to learn and use L2 in
any situation in life.
 To make as a part in life.
The Teleological Nature of
Language
Language is a purposeful activity has
been recognized very early days of
language study
There are two components of
language
-content
-expression
The content corresponds to the
semantic of language
Semantics consist in the totality of
society’s varied experiences.
The sum of that experiences is called
semantic system of language
Any form of communication is a
confrontation between persons
bearing the semantic system of the
language
In other word
LANGUAGE CAN NOT BE USED IN ANY
FORM WITHOUT HAVING A BERING ON
ITS COMMUNICATION STRUCTURE
The Child and
Communication
 Child only have one device to achieve his
fulfillment of his needs, and that device is
LANGUAGE.
 Language is the role means to have any kind
of interaction with and to control society
 The communicational language of the family
influence the child, and that language further
serves as the basis for future asthmatic,
professional or technical language
 Articulatory limitations and the level of
maturity pose both encoding and decoding
problems for the child and decoding of the
child’s language for adult