Communication Vocabular
This term refers to the sender’s intended message.
What is the message?
The first step in the communication process.
What is the sender encoding a message?
Speaking and writing are examples of this type of communication.
What is verbal communication?
Saying “hello” is an example of this.
What is verbal communication?
What Exactly Is Writing?
What is Writing = Information + Symbols
The person who receives and interprets the message.
Who is the receiver?
This step involves interpreting the message.
What is decoding?
Gestures, facial expressions, and posture are examples of this.
What is non-verbal communication?
Smiling when happy is an example of this.
What is non-verbal communication?
Ancient Egyptians developed the first writing system we know about
hieroglyphic writing!
This is the medium through which a message travels.
What is the channel?
A response from the receiver to the sender.
What is feedback?
This type of communication uses technology like email or texting.
What is digital communication?
This non-verbal cue can show confidence or nervousness.
What is body language?
Today we call picture writing..
What is ideograms
Anything that interferes with the message being understood.
What is noise?
The complete cycle of communication includes these three key steps.
What are encoding, transmitting, and decoding?
Communication through art, music, or dance.
What is symbolic communication?
This non-verbal element includes tone, pitch, and volume.
What is paralanguage?
Writing allowed societies to do this with knowledge.
What is preserve and transmit it?
The process of turning thoughts into communication.
What is encoding?
This model shows communication as a two-way interactive process.
What is the transactional model?
Communication that happens without words or sound.
What is silent communication?
Eye contact, gestures, and posture are all part of this.
What is kinesics?
Writing systems evolved from these early visual symbols.
What are pictographs?