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DEFINITION OF COMMUNICATION generator and communicator of the message, and the
recipient to whom that message intended.
The processes that bond humans together are founded on communication. It is by However, due to the complexity of the communication that one opens up to another communication process, the elements may be and receives confirmation of some kind. modified and detailed in several ways. Alberts et al. Communication in this sense is essentially (2007) present six basic elements of communication: transactional, giving and receiving content, the setting, participants, message creation, channels, which may take a wide variety of forms. noise, and feedback to explain how communication What we communicate is meaning but interaction unfolds. communication simultaneously involves SENDER-RECIEVER construction of meaning. It constitutes both the construction of meaning and the Communication means that the sender and the exchange of meaning. Unlike other forms of receiver get involved in communication because they exchange, communication accounts for so have ideas and feelings to share. This sharing many other elements, which make the study however, is not one-way or turn-taking process. In of communication a fascinating task. The most communication situations people are senders context, the culture, the relationship, the and receivers at the same time. They are the society, the message, and the medium- all participants in a communication. form part of the communication process. Communication involves acting on MESSAGE information, responding to stimulus, a The message is made up of the ideas and feelings that creative act, making sense of the world, the senders/receivers want to share. Moreover, ideas assigning meaning to experience and feelings, and feelings can only be shared if they ar represented and can also be intentional as well as by symbols. Symbols are things that stand for unintentional. something else. All communication messages are Alberts, Nakayama, and Martin (2007) defines made up of two symbols: verbal and non-verbal. communication as a "transactional process in which people generate meaning through the exchange of verbal messages in specific The verbal symbols are all the words in a language, contexts, influenced by individual and societal which stand for a particular thing or idea. A word is forces and embedded in culture." Culture used to generally mean one thing. Verbal symbols can here is considered as the provider of patterns be even more complicated when they are abstract of perceptions, values, and behavior that the than concrete Abstract symbols stand for ideas rather group transmits and makes a shared heritage. than objects. When two people abstraction (e.g., love, Context tends to be culturally defined so beauty, justice), they may have different meanings much that the individual is made to discern because they had different experiences with the from the given options available to society; concept. hence, culture provides the strongest fabric to societal forces. Therefore, the role of culture cannot be underestimated, "culture affects all The non-verbal symbols are anything we or almost all communication interaction" communicate without using words such as facial (Alberts, Nakayama, & Martin 2007) expressions, gestures, posture, colors, vocal tones, BASIC ELEMENTS OF THE COMMUNICATION appearance etc. They have certain meanings attached PROCESS to them, which are culturally or even personally encoded and decoded. Communication, as a process where people share information, feelings, and ideas, consists of four basic elements: the message, the medium, the sender, a the reliever. Basically, communication happens when a message is conveyed. the process, there is the means by which such message is conveyed, the
