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    THE MODELS OF

    COMMUNICATION
    Linear, Interactive and Transactional
    A LINEAR VIEW
    Linear Model
    • In this linear communication model, communication is like
    giving an injection: a sender encodes ideas and feelings
    into some sort of message and then conveys them by
    means of a channel (speech, writing, and so on) into a
    receiver, who decodes the message.
    Linear Model
    • The model highlights how different channels can affect
    the way a receiver responds to a message.
    • It also introduces the concept of noise- a term used by
    social scientist to describe any forces that interfere with
    effective communication. Noise can occur at any stage of
    the communication process.
    Linear Model
    • Three types of noise can disrupt communication- external,
    physiological and psychological.
    • External noise also called physical, includes those factors
    outside the receiver that make it difficult to hear, as well
    as other kinds of distractions. Eg., a smoky room.
    • Physiological noise involves biological factors in the
    receiver or sender that interfere with accurate reception:
    illness, fatigue and so on.
    Linear Model
    • Physiological noise involves biological factors in the
    receiver or sender that interfere with accurate reception:
    illness, fatigue and so on.
    • Psychological Noise refers to forces within a
    communicator that interfere with the ability to
    express or understand a message accurately. For eg,
    stress, defensiveness.
    AN INTERACTIVE VIEW
    Interactive Model
    • This model makes the importance of feedback clear.
    It shows that most communication is , indeed, a two
    way affair in which we both send and receive
    messages.

    • It also identifies a clue to the cause of many


    misunderstandings. Such misunderstandings often
    arise because communicators often occupy
    different environments- fields of experience- that
    help them understand others behavior.
    Interactive Model
    • In communication terminology, environment refers
    not only to a physical location but also to the
    personal experiences and cultural background that
    participants bring to a conversation.
    • Consider just some of the factors that might
    contribute to different environments:
    • A might belong to one ethnic group and B to
    another
    • A might be rich and B poor
    Interactive Model
    • In the figure showed in the previous slide, the
    environments A and B overlap, representing the
    background communicators must have in common.
    As the shared environment becomes smaller,
    communication becomes more difficult.
    • Differing environments make understanding
    difficult, but certainly not impossible. Hard work
    and many communication skills help to bridge the
    gap that separates us.
    A TRANSACTIONAL VIEW
    Transactional View
    • The activity of communicating is best represented
    by a transactional communication model.
    • A transactional model reveals that we usually send
    and receive messages simultaneously, so that the
    images of sender and receiver should not be
    separated as if a person were doing only one or the
    other, but rather superimposed and redefined as
    ‘communicators.’
    Transactional View
    • The model also posits that communication isn’t
    something we do to others, rather, it is an activity
    we do with them.
    • The transactional nature of communication is
    explained in the relationship between parents and
    children.
    Transactional View
    • Communication is a continuous, transactional
    process involving participants who occupy different
    but overlapping environments and create a
    relationship by simultaneously sending and
    receiving messages, many of which are distorted by
    external, physiological and psychological noise.

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