Introduction to

Speech Chapter 1

Communication

•A process for exchanging ideas and

creating meaning

Metacommunication

•Communication about

communication

Message

•Something you want to communicate

Receiver

•One for whom a message is intended

Sender

•One who communicates a message

Encoding

•The process of turning ideas into

messages

Decoding

•The process of translating

communication into meaning

Feedback

•The receiver’s response to the sender

Context

•Time and place

Channel

•The means used to transmit a message

from sender to receiver

Interference

•Anything that blocks or distorts

communication

Intrapersonal communication

•Communication within ourselves

Interpersonal communication

•Communication in which people

exchange messages

Person-to-group communication

•Communication which a speaker

addresses a group as one receiver

Mass Media

•Technology that brings a message to

many people