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Models of Communication
Course: Advertising & Integrated Marketing Communications (MKTG 322)
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Models of Communication
Communication: When we are passing information from one person to the other with the help of
any medium, the process is known as communication. In every communication there is a sender,
message, and receiver.
A famous quote says: “The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately
determines the quality of our lives"
Sender----Information----Receiver
Models of Communication:
1-Aristotle Model of Communication:
Aristotle (384-322 B.C) was a Greek philosopher and writer born in Stagira, Northern Greece.
He was the first to take the initiative and design the communication mode. According to this
model the speaker plays a key role in communication. The speaker communicates in such a way
that the listener gets influenced and responds accordingly. This model is a speaker centered
model as the speaker has the most important role in it and is the only one active. It is the
speaker’s role to
deliver a speech to the audience. The role of the audience is passive, influenced by the speech.
This makes the communication process one way, from speaker to receiver. Aristotle Model is
mainly focused on speaker and speech. It can be broadly divided into 5 primary elements:
Speaker, Speech, Occasion, Audience and Effect.
A politician (speaker) gives a speech to get votes from the civilians (audience) at the time of
election (occasion). The civilians only vote if they are influenced by the things the politician says
in his speech so the content must be very impressive to influence the masses and the speaker
must design the message very carefully.
The speech must be clear as well as the speaker must have very good non-verbal communication
with the audience like eye contact. This example is a classic case of Aristotle Model of
Communication depicting all the elements in the model.
2- Berlo's Model of Communication:
Berlo's SMCR model of communication presents the communication process in its simplest
form. The model focuses on encoding and decoding which happens before the sender sends the
message and before receiving the message. Berlo's model has mainly four components to
describe the communication process. They are Sender, Message, Channel, and receiver.
S- Sender: The person or a source who sends the message to the receiver. The following are
some factors related to the sender and the same in case of receiver.