Communication: The Interaction Process Of Communication And The Communication Process

Communication

The word "communication" has been derived from the Latin "communis," that means "common". Therefore, ‘to communicate’ means to make common or to share. Based on Oxford Dictionary, communication is the exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium. In Cambridge Dictionary, communication is the act of communicating with people. In general, communication is an interaction process between the sender and the receiver. It is a two-way process which involves in the transferring of information from one person to another. It can be between two individuals or a group of people depending on the information, time and place. The message is can be given in a form of verbal like speaking or non-verbal. Examples of non-verbal form of information is written message, images or graphs, gestures, body language, facial expression and so on. An effective communication is when the receiver understands the message in the information that the sender is giving.

There are a number of elements in the process of communicating. Each of the elements is important in the communication process. The communication process starts with the sender and ends with the sender getting a feedback from the receiver. In the communication process, there two types of people involved which is the sender and the receiver. The sender encodes the message and the receiver decodes the information given. In the model, there are eight elements in Shannon’s model of communication and the elements are:-

1. Sender

The sender initiates the communication process. The process start when an idea comes in the mind of the sender.

2. Message

The contents of the idea or message in which the sender wants to share with the