COMMUNICATIVE PROCESS: ELEMENTS AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS - CULTURE VOCABULARY - 2024

The communicative process and its elements are necessary for there to be an exchange of data between individuals. This exchange occurs between individuals of different species, however, the most complex communicative process is that which takes place between human beings.

This process is made up of a series of elements without which it could not exist. These elements include a sender (who emits the message), a receiver (who receives the message), a message (the information emitted), a code (the common signs between sender and receiver) and a channel (the physical medium in the the communication process takes place).

It is said that the communicative process between human beings is the most complex, since it starts from a psychic activity: thought. This thought must go through a mental process to be reflected through language. In this sense, in human beings, social skills play a fundamental role in the communication process.

The communication process uses language to exist. Therefore, without language and without the inherent codes of language, it would be impossible to communicate with other people.

Language within communication theory has different functions: expressive, representative, appellative, poetic, physical, and metalinguistic.

What is the communicative process?

When we talk about process, we refer to all the steps that have to take place in a continuous and orderly way to obtain a specific result. The communicative process consists of the series of events that have to take place between a sender and a receiver for a message to be transmitted.

Therefore, the communicative process can be understood as an event that takes place between a sender and a receiver, and whose main objective is to exchange facts and ideas between both individuals.

These individuals may hold different opinions, which is why the communication process seeks to generate harmony between these opinions, despite their difference.

The communicative process is dynamic, continuous, irreversible in nature and is subject to a context. It is impossible to participate in it without knowing all the elements that compose it. It can be said that it is a phenomenon in constant movement and not a static event.

There are several elements that make up the communication process. These elements are a sender, a receiver, a message, a code and a channel. When one of these elements is affected, the transmission of the message will also be affected.

Elements of the communication process

1 - Issuer

The sender is the person who creates and encodes the message. This person decides what message they want to send and the best and most effective way to send it.

The choice of all the variables that can affect the message must be made taking into account the recipient of the message. Therefore, one of the tasks of the receiver is to wonder about the best way to send the message.

The sender must ask himself about the type of words to use, the type of visual support that he will use to communicate his message and the idea he wants to convey, among other questions that allow him to deliver his message effectively.

2 - Receiver

The receiver is the one who decodes the message. That is, it is responsible for extracting the meaning of the message, taking into account the codes it shares with the issuer. Also, he is the one who must respond to the sender about the received message.

The receiver's main job is to interpret the message that was delivered, according to the receiver's wishes.

3 - Message

The message is the set of symbols or signals that pass from sender to receiver, making the communication process possible.

In other words, it is the axis, content and object of communication. The message is the most important element of communication.

It can be an opinion, an attitude, a position on a topic, an order, a feeling or a suggestion.

4 - Channel

The sender is the person who chooses the communication channel, taking into account what he wants to transmit in his message, and the person to whom he wants to transmit it. The channel is the physical medium through which the message is transmitted.

The receiver can receive the message through a formal or informal channel. The message can arrive through a radio station, a television station, a post office, the internet, among others.

5 - Code

The message within the communication process by itself is intelligible, it needs to use signs and symbols to make sense. These signs and symbols are known as a code.

The code is the common information between the sender and the receiver that allows the message to be understood.

Some examples of the code are language or cultural values. Therefore, the person who receives the message will only be able to understand or decode it as long as they share the same codes with the sender.

Other important elements of communication

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The medium is the way the sender uses to transmit the message. The message can be expressed in the form of a letter, an email, a book, an advertisement, a television commercial, an instruction manual, a traffic sign, a speech, a face-to-face conversation among others.

2 - Context

The communicative process does not take place in isolation, it happens in a context. The context is the environment that surrounds the process and is composed of a geographical location, a moment in time, an event, and an attitude on the part of both the sender and the receiver.

3 - Answer

The answer given by the receiver is the one that shows whether or not he understood the message that was delivered. It is the element that determines if the communication process was successful.

4 - Noise

Noise is any external element that interferes with the emission or reception of the message. A noise can be any obstacle that prevents the message from being properly received.

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