Explaining the Nature

of Communication
 OBJECTIVES:
Through learning experience, the students can:

– Understand communication
– Define and illustrate communication according to
Monroe and Pace
– Value the importance of Communication to our daily
living
 COMMUNICATION?

– Is derived from the latin word “communis” which

means common. This involves the process of
transmitting and delivering information to an intended
audience for whatever purposes it may be such as
forming relationships, exchanging meanings, making
transactions, influence choices, stimulating aesthetic
appeal, and more importantly, for creating and
producing ideas.
WHAT IS
COMMUNICATION?
– Monroe (1982) communication
as the sharing of experiences
publicly for the common good.
– Pace (1979) communication has
to be learned.
Explaining the nature
Of
communication
 OBJECTIVES:
– Through learning experience, the students can:

1. Explain the nature of communication

2. Differentiates the various models of communication using Venn
diagram
3. Write an essay about the definition and nature of communication
4. Value the significance of nature and process of communication
through understanding the various models of communication.
WHAT IS A MODEL?
A model of communication may try to explain how human
beings communicate among themselves.
It attempts to capture the essential elements of the
process of communication, and graphically illustrate or
create the communication as an event or a process as it
occurs in a specific content.
To offer a symbolic representation of how communication
takes place in different situations and how it can be treat.
 MODELS OF
COMMUNICATION

LINEAR INTERACTIVE TRANSACTIONAL

 Communication is a one  Views communication

Views communication as
way process as 2-way process.
interdependent.
 it depicts  Both the speaker and
Both speaker can
communication as one listener take turns to simultaneously send and
way process: speaker speak and listen to each receive messages.
speaks, never listens. other.
VARIOUS MODELS
GIVEN BY DIFFERENT
RESEARCHERS
 ARISTOTLE’S
COMMUNICATION MODEL

Was a Greek Philosopher

and a writer who
conceptualize
communication as an art of
public speaking.
 RHETORIC

ETHOS PATHOS LOGOS

 CLAUDE SHANNON & WARREN
WEAVER (1948)

Claude Elwood Shannon was an American Warren Weaver was an American scientist,
mathematician, electrical engineer, and mathematician, and a science administrator
cryptographer.
 SCHRAMM’S MODEL OF
COMMUNICATION
Father of Mass
Communication.

He asserts that
communication can
take place if only
there is an overlap
between the Field of
Experience of the
Speaker and the
Field of Experience of
the Listener.
What is the Field of Experience?
– it is everything that makes a person unique- everything
he/she has learned, seen, heard, read, and studied.
– in fact it is practically everything that has happened in
his/her life.
– it is the Field of Experience that is used to interpret the
Message and create a response.
– it is also this Field of Experience of the Listener that needs
to overlap with the speaker’s field of experience, which
can only happen when the two fields have the same
commonalities.
SCHRAMM’S MODEL OF
COMMUNICATION
 EUGINE WHITE (1960)
– Who tells us that communication is circular
and continuous, without a beginning or end.
– He also points out that although we can
assume that communication begin with
thinking, communication can actually be
observed from any point in the circle.
WHITE’S MODEL OF COMMUNICATION