Communication Type

Communication is essential nowadays . Communication is a two way process that involves a sender a receiver and a message. Communication has four types: verbal, non verbal, informal and formal. The verbal communication includes oral, written and email, and the non verbal communication includes body language. Body language is as important as the verbal communication. people send messages through their posture, gestures, face expressions etc. The formal communication is official, rigid and limited , usually used in the office , at business meetings. Informal communication is the way we talk to people we know, the way we talk daily, without anyone checking up on us.

Besides types of communication, we also have Types of Communication Models. For example we have the transmission model that is concerned with the transfer of meaning from the sender to the receiver. Later on the transmission model was adapted so that people could transmit , receive, interpret and respond messages. The second communication model is the Porcess model. This one includes seven elements: sender, receiver, message, feedback, channel, context or setting and noise or interference. In short, in the process models the message is encountered by the sender through a channel such as body language  and then decoded by the receiver. After this, the receiver gives feedback; and the process is influenced by the context or by any other interference.

Other Type of Communication Model is: the Berlo`s model of the communication process . Berlo introduced more human elements like the relationship between the message channel and the five senses. The Schramm`s model of the communication process is the second model. Because Berlo didn't include feedback into his model, Schamm said that each person should be an encoder and decoder. The Barnlund`s transactional model of communication, proposed six assumptions. Communication is a process that is : continuous, dynamic, circular, unrepeatable, irreversible, complex.

The process models of communication, therefore, have started to think that communication is a shared responsibility. An effective communication has to have a receiver and a sender; the message has to be clear and the receiver has to signal understanding. The process of encoding and decoding is based on a person`s perception of the world. Everyone of us has a certain perception, certain ideas that`s why it`s hard to see the same message or to understand the same thing.

As a conclusion, sending a message involves hard work. The communication models we have shown here , are just another way to complicate things. In order to understand a message you have to think the same as the receiver. Decoding a message is easy if you know or have a clue what the sender said. In the end, communication is very simple but, we tend to complicate it. We communicate daily, even if we don`t do it the right way, we have customed to not understand everything. The essential things are understood so the rest doesn`t matter.