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The document discusses various functions and purposes of communication, including expressing needs, giving instructions, sharing personal information, asking questions, and making statements. It also examines verbal communication aspects like volume, pitch, rate, and vocalized pauses, as well as non-verbal cues such as gestures, eye contact, facial expressions, posture, touching behaviors, and personal space. Teachers are asked to assess students' understanding of speeches through a rubric assignment requiring groups to create their own rubrics.

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Functions of Communication

The document discusses various functions and purposes of communication, including expressing needs, giving instructions, sharing personal information, asking questions, and making statements. It also examines verbal communication aspects like volume, pitch, rate, and vocalized pauses, as well as non-verbal cues such as gestures, eye contact, facial expressions, posture, touching behaviors, and personal space. Teachers are asked to assess students' understanding of speeches through a rubric assignment requiring groups to create their own rubrics.

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Functions of Communication

“DON'T USE WORDS TOO BIG FOR


THE SUBJECT. DON'T SAY
INFINITELY WHEN YOU MEAN
VERY; OTHERWISE YOU'LL HAVE
NO WORD LEFT WHEN YOU WANT
TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING
REALLY INFINITE.”
― C.S. LEWIS
Functions of Communication

When we speak, the content of our utterances


can differ from our true intensions; therefore, it
is important to understand the various purposes
of communication

Halliday’s Seven Functions of Language


 Instrumental
 to express desires and needs
 Regulatory
 for rules, instructions, orders, and suggestions
 Interactional
 for greeting, leave-taking, thanking, good wishes
Functions of Communication

When we speak, the content of our utterances can


differ from our true intensions; therefore, it is
important to understand the various purposes of
communication

 Personal
 to talk about oneself or express feelings
 Heuristic
 for asking questions
 Imaginative
 for hypothesizing and creating for the love of sound and image
 Informative
 for affirmative and negative statements
VERBAL AND NON – VERBAL COMMUNICATION

VERBAL COMMUNICATION- skills refer to communication through


spoken words.
 Volume
 The loudness or lowness of vocal tone.
 People tend to vary their volume depending on the situation, the topic of
discussion, and emotional intent.
 Pitch
 The highness or lowness of vocal tone.
 People raise and lower vocal pitch to emphasize ideas and emotions and to
indicate questions.
 People sometimes raise their pitch when they are nervous or afraid.
 Intonation
 The variety, melody, or inflection in one’s voice.
 Most people conform to the expectations for their sex.
 Masculine voices are expected to be low-pitched and loud, with moderate to low-
intonation; feminine voices are expected to be high-pitched, softer in volume,
and more expressive.
VERBAL AND NON – VERBAL COMMUNICATION

VERBAL COMMUNICATION- skills refer to communication through spoken


words.
 Rate
 The speed at which a person speaks.
 People tend to talk more rapidly when they are happy, frightened, nervous, or excited and
more slowly when they are problem solving out loud or are trying to emphasize a point.
 People who speak too slowly run the risk of boring listeners and those who speak too quickly
may not be intelligible.
 Quality
 The sound of a person’s voice that distinguishes it from others.
 Each person’s voice has a distinct quality, too much breathiness can make people sound
frail, too much stridence can make them seem hypertense, too much throatiness can make
them seem cold and unsympathetic, and too much nasality can make them sound immature
or unintelligent.
 Vocalized Pauses
 Extraneous sounds or words that interrupt fluent speech.
 The most common vocalized pauses are “uh,” “uhm,” “er,” “well,” “ok” and those nearly
universal interruptions of American conversations, “you know,” and “like.”
 As the use of vocalized pauses increases, people are less able to understand the message and
they may perceive the ideas as not well though and the sender as confused.
VERBAL AND NON – VERBAL COMMUNICATION

Nonverbal communication conveys nonlinguistic


messages.
 Gestures
 The movements of hands, arms, and fingers to clarify or
emphasize a point.
 Gesture can be called illustrators, emblems, and
adaptors.
 Eye Contact
 It has to do with how and how much a person looks at
others when communicating.
 Studies show that talkers hold eye contact at about 40%
and listeners nearly 70%.
VERBAL AND NON – VERBAL COMMUNICATION

Nonverbal communication conveys nonlinguistic messages.

 Facial Expression
 The arrangement of facial muscles to communicate emotional states or reactions
to messages.
 Facial expressions are so important to communicating the emotional part of a
message that people often use representative smiley face , sad face, and other
emoticons to represent facial expressions when texting, sending email, or posting
comments on social networking sites like Facebook.

 Posture
 This is how a person position and move the body.
 Body movement can be motivated, movement that helps clarify meaning, or
unmotivated movement, movement that distracts listeners from the point
being made.
VERBAL AND NON – VERBAL COMMUNICATION

Nonverbal communication conveys nonlinguistic messages.


 Haptics
 The technical term for what and how touch communicates. Touching behavior is a
fundamental aspect of non-verbal communication.
 People differ in their use of touching behavior and their reactions to unsolicited touch from
others.

 Space
 The distance a person tries to maintain when interacting with other people.
 In general, the amount of space a person views as appropriate decreases as the intimacy of
relationship increases.
 Personal space can be intimate distance, personal distance, social distance, or
public distance.
 Intimate distance is up to 18 inches and is appropriate for private conversations between
close friends.
 Personal distance is from 18 inches to 4 feet which is appropriate for casual conversation.
 Social distance is from 4 to 12 feet which is appropriate for impersonal business such as
job interview.
 Public distance is anything more than 12 feet.
Functions of Communication

WATCH
 Memorized Speech
1. The Gettysburg Address
2. Blond and Blue Eyes
Functions of Communication

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Present to the class the different examples of speeches
once again. Divide the class into groups; each group
will create a speech rubric of their own.
 RUBRICS
 Coherence of Criteria: 10 points
 Completeness of Criteria: 10 points
 Analytic/ Holistic:10 points
 Task Specific: 10 points
Functions of Communication

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Requirements for RUBRICS
1. Elements/ Criteria- 5- 6 items
2. Short Description for each element
3. Distribution of points and description
EXAMPLE
1. Speech 10 points 10- Excellent
Deportments 8-9 Very Satisfactory
(Posture, Eye 7-6 Satisfactory
Contact, Gestures, 5- Poor
body movements)

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