1. Basic Communication Concepts From Speech Communication to Communication Studies

2. Defining Communication  The process of creating (yes!) or sharing meaning in informal conversation, group interaction, or public speaking. [By definition, our academic discipline focuses on messages.]

3. The Linear (Berlo) Model Source Receiver Message Channel

4. The Interactive Model Source Receiver Message Channel Feedback

5. The Transactional Model

6. Communication Principles  Communication Has Purpose  Communication is Continuous (?)  Communication messages vary in conscious thought  Communication is relational  Communication is guided by culture  All com. has ethical implications

7. Communication Functions  To meet social needs  To enhance and maintain ourselves  To develop relationships  To exchange information  To influence others

8. Communication is symbolic  The difference between signs and symbols  Language as a symbolic system  Is there such a thing as “body language?”  More later on the topics of verbal and nonverbal communication

9. Communication is multidimensional Cultural Social Psychological

10. Ye Olde Primordial Slime Talk

11.  Who were the earliest speech teachers?

12. Ye Olde Primordial Slime Talk  Who were the earliest speech teachers?  Who was the most influential speech teacher? What did he write?

13. Ye Olde Primordial Slime Talk  Who were the earliest speech teachers?  Who was the most influential speech teacher? What did he write?  What about the guy with the rocks?

14. Ye Olde Primordial Slime Talk  Who were the earliest speech teachers?  Who was the most influential speech teacher? What did he write?  What about the guy with the rocks?  Could anyone (even a scoundrel) be a great speaker?

15. Speaking of Aristotle…  His divisions of ethos, logos & pathos  Credibility is composed of  Trustworthiness, or character  Authoritativeness, or competence  Charisma, or dynamism

16. The “canons” of rhetoric  Invention  Disposition  Style  Delivery  Memory

17. Kenneth Burke  The “dramatistic pentad” (forget this one)  The concept of Identification (remember this one…)  Speaker with audience  Audience with topic