Text One An Introduction to CommunicationI. Words Studyi) New Words:sociology n. 社会学psychology n. 心理学economics n. 经济学politics n. 政治学academic adj. 学院的, 理论的system n. 系统，体系environment n. 环境biological n. 生物学的community n. 团体，社会，社区root n. 根mechanism n. 机制symbol n. 象征means n. 手段，方法preserve v. 保存opposite adj. 相反的，对立的conduct v. 进行，操作gesture n. 姿势，手势facial adj. 面部的pitch n. 声调pattern n. 类型，模式ii) Key Words & Expressions:communication n. 传播journalism n. 新闻学transfer n.& v. 传递，迁移information n. 信息circulation n. 流通，运行，循环，传播convey v. 传送，传递feedback n. 反馈，反应medium n. 媒体，媒介，中介II. Text StudySTUDY PREVIEW communication is an important word in our today’s academic study in journalism, sociology, psychology, economics & politics. It’s also heard more & more often in our daily life. So what iscommunication?Communication:The transfer of social information & the circulation of social information systems.Social:When we say “communication”in our study, we usually mean human communication, not animal communication; a “communication”happening in a society, not in other environments such as natural, physical or biological ones.Why we study “human communication”?Communication is the tool that makes societies possible. It is no accident that communication and community have the same word root. Without communication, there would be no communities; and without community, there could be no communication.The sociologist Charles Cooley called communication “the mechanism through which human relations exist and develop_ all the symbols of the mind, together with the means of conveying them through space and preserving them in time”.Transfer of information:When “communication”happens, information flows from one person to another, and then the receiver may give some feedback to the giver. During this process, the information is shared, and the giver andreceiver can play the opposite role.Also, communication needs some medium, which is something both parts of a communication can understand. For example, two or more people come together, trying to share some information. But they are from different countries and have different life experiences. So if they want to understand one another, they must use some medium such as English language, or even body language.In modern times, words are important tools or media for communication. But communication is not conducted entirely, or even mostly, in words. A gesture, a facial expression, a pitch pattern, a level of loudness, an emphasis, a kiss, a hand on the shoulder, a haircut or lack of one _ all these carry information.Text Two Types of CommunicationI. Words Studyi) New Words:engage v. 使从事于，参加differentiate v. 区别，区分precede v. 领先，在之前，先于prefixe n. 前缀intrasquad adj. （班）内部的intercollegiate adj. 学院间的intimacy n. 亲密，隐私auditorium n. 听众席，观众席，会堂，礼堂define v. 定义，详细说明accomplish v. 完成，实现purpose n. 目的inform v. 告知entertain v. 娱乐persuade v. 说服，劝说，使相信conceive v. 构思，考虑essentially adv. 本质上distinctive adj. 与众不同的，有特色的craft n. & v. 工艺，手艺background n. 背景complex adj. 复杂的device n. 设计，装置，设备printing press n. 印刷机camera n. 照相机recorder n. 录音机singular adj. 单数的plural adj. 复数的ii) Key Words & Expressions:mass media 大众传播媒体mass communication 大众传播intrapersonal communication 自我传播interpersonal communication 人际传播group communication 群体传播audience 受众，观众，听众encode 编码code 代码transmit 传输，传达，传播decode 解码internalize 使内在化II. Text StudySTUDY PREVIEW The communication in which the mass media engage is only one form of communication. One way to begin understanding the process of mass communication is to differentiate it from other forms of communication.Intrapersonal CommunicationWe engage in intrapersonal communication when we talk to ourselves to develop our thoughts and ideas. This intrapersonal communication precedes our speaking or acting.Intrapersonal communication is an exchange of information we have with ourselves, such as when we think over our next move in a video game or sing to ourselves in the shower. Typing into a computer is electronically mediated intrapersonal communication.Interpersonal CommunicationWhen people talk to each other, they are engaging in interpersonal communication. In this simplest form, interpersonal communication is between two people physically located in the same place. It can occur, however, if they are physically separated but emotionally connected, like lovers on cell phones.The difference between the prefixes intra- and inter- is the key difference between intrapersonal and interpersonal communication. Just as intrasquad athletic games are within a team, intrapersonal communication is within one’s self. Just as intercollegiate games are between schools, interpersonal communication is between individuals.Interpersonal communication includes exchanges in which two or more people take part, but the term is usually reserved for situations in which just two people are communicating. Having a face-to-face conversation over lunch and writing a letter to a friend are everyday examples. When interpersonal communication is electronically mediated, as in a telephone conversation, the term point-to-point communication is sometimes used.Group CommunicationThere comes a point when the number of people involved reduces the intimacy of the communication process. That’s when the situation becomes group communication. A club meeting is an example. So is a speech to an audience in an auditorium.Mass CommunicationCapable of reaching thousands, even millions, of people is mass communication, which is accomplished through a mass medium like television or newspapers. Mass communication can be defined as the process of using a mass medium to send messages to large audiences for the purpose of informing, entertaining or persuading.In many respects the process of mass communication and other communication forms is the same: Someone conceives a message, essentially an intrapersonal act. The message then is encoded into a common code, such as language. Then it’s transmitted. Another person receives the message, decodes it and internalizes it. Internalizing a message is also an intrapersonal act.In other respects, mass communication is distinctive. Crafting an effective message for thousands of people of diverse backgrounds and interests requires different skills than chatting with a friend across the table. Encoding the message is more complex because a device is always used-for example, a printing press, a camera or a recorder.One aspect of mass communication that should not be a mystery is the spelling of the often-misused word communication. The word takes no “s” if you are using it to refer to a process. If you are referring to a communication as a thing, such as a letter, a movie, a telegram or a television program, rather than a process, the word is communication in singular form and communication in plural. When the term mass communication refers to a process, it is spelled without the “s”.Review:communication: Exchange of ideas，information.intrapersonal Communication: Talking to oneself.interpersonal Communication: Usually two people face to face.group Communication: More than two people; in person.mass Communication: Many recipients; not face to face; a process.Text Three Components of Mass CommunicationSTUDY PREVIEW Mass communication is the process that mass communicators use to send their mass messages to mass audiences. They do this through the mass media. Think of these as the Five Ms: mass communicators, mass messages, mass media, mass communication and mass audience.Mass CommunicatorsThe heart of mass communication is the people who produce the messages that are carried in the mass media. These people include journalists, scriptwriters, lyricists, television anchors, radio disc jockeys, public relations practitioners and advertising copywriters. The list could go on and on.Mass communicators are unlike other communicators because they cannot see their audience. David Letterman knows that hundreds of thousands of people are watching as he unveils his latest Top 10 list, but he can’t see them or hear them chuckle and laugh. He receives no immediate feedback from his mass audience. This communicating with an unseen audience distinguishes mass communication from other forms of communication. Storytellers of yore told their vocabulary according to how they sensed they were being received. Mass communicators don’t have that advantage, although a studio audience.Mass MessagesA news item is a mass message, as are a movie, a novel, a recorded song and a billboard advertisement. The message is the most apparent part of our relationship to the mass media. It is for the messages that we pay attention to the media. We don’t listen to the radio, for example, to marvel at the technology. We listen to hear the music.Mass MediaThe mass media are the vehicles that carry messages. The primary massmedia are books, magazines, newspapers, television, radio, sound recordings, movies and the web. Most theories view media as neutral carriers of messages. The people who are experts at media include technicians who keep the presses running and who keep the television transmitters on the air. Media experts also are tinkers and inventors who come up with technical improvements, such as compact discs, DVDs, AM stereo radio and newspaper presses that can produce high-quality color.Mass CommunicationThe process through which messages reach the audience via the mass media is called mass communication. This is a mysterious process about which we know far less than we should. Researchers and scholars have unraveled some of the mystery, but most of how it works remains a matters of wonderment. For example, why do people pay more attention to some messages than to others? How does one advertisement generate more sales than another? Is behavior, including violent behavior, triggered through the mass communication process? There is reason to believe that mass communication affects voting behavior, but how does this work? Which is most correct-to say that people can be controlled by mass communication? Or manipulated? Or merely influenced? Nobody has the answer.Mass AudiencesThe size and diversity of mass audiences add complexity to mass communication. Only indirectly do mass communicators learn whether their messages have been received. Mass communicators are never sure exactly of the size of audiences, let alone of the effect of their messages. Mass audiences are fickle. What attracts great attention one day may not the next. The challenge of trying to communicate to a mass audience is even more complex because people are tuning in and tuning out all the time, and when they are tuned in, it is with varying degrees of attentiveness.Review:mass Communicators: Message crafters.mass Message: What is communicated.mass Media: Vehicles that carry messages.mass Audiences: Recipients of mass messages.Text Four Communication ModelsI. Words Studyi) New Words:devise vt. 设计, 发明, 图谋, 作出(计划), 想出(办法)in an attempt to 力图, 试图simplification n.简化imperfect adj.有缺点的, 未完成的, 减弱的illumination n. 照明, 阐明, 启发, 灯彩(通常用复数)mysterious adj.神秘的hobbyist n.沉溺于某种癖好者,嗜某爱好成癖的人automobile n. 汽车scale n. 刻度,衡量,比例facsimile n. 摹写, 传真architect n. 建筑师passerby n. 过路人, 行人plumbing n. 铅工业, 铅管品制造ventilation n. 通风, 流通空气nonetheless adv. 虽然如此, 但是adequately adv. 充分地lay out 摆开, 展示, 布置, 安排, 投资advanced adj. 高级的, 年老的, 先进的switching n. 开关,转换,交换,配电,配电系统,整流diagram n. 图表reference point参考点, 控制点baseline n. 基线narrative adj. 叙述性的Yale n.耶鲁pose v. (使...)摆好姿势, 形成, 引起, 造成channel n. 渠道，途径，方法reservoir n. 水库, 蓄水池dominance n. 优势, 统治be credited as 被誉为describe v. 描写, 记述, 形容, 形容originator n. 创作者,发明人content n. 内容interpretable adj. 能说明的, 能翻译的, 可判断的reverse v. 颠倒, 倒转destination n. 目的地distortion n. 扭曲, 变形, 曲解, 失真originate v. 起源, 发生literally adv. 照字面意义, 逐字地browser n. 浏览器concentric adj. 同中心的unique adj. 唯一的, 独特的ring n. 环simultaneously adv. 同时地resonate v. (使)共鸣, (使)共振gatekeep v. 把关，控制variable n. 变数, 可变物, 变量track v. 追踪，探寻轨迹comprehensive adj. 全面，广泛，能充分理解的ii) Key Words & Expressions:communication model 传播模式narrative model 线性模式system model 系统模式the SMCR model 施拉姆模式concentric circle model 同心圆模式Claude Shannon 香农Warren Weaver 韦弗Harold Lasswell 拉斯韦尔Wilbur Schramm 施拉姆Thomas Bohn 波恩II. Text StudySTUDY PREVIEW Scholars have devised models of the communication process in an attempt to understand how the process works. Like all models, these are simplifications and are imperfect. Even so, these models bring some illumination to the mysterious communicationprocess.Role of Communication ModelsHobbyists build models of ships, planes, automobiles and all kinds of other things. These models help them see whatever they are modeling in different ways. Industrial engineers and scientists do the same thing, learning lessons from models before they actually build something to full scale. Communication models are similar. By creating a facsimile of the process, we hope to better understand the process.A reality about models is that they are never perfect. This reality is especially true when the subject being modeled is complex. An architect, for example, may have a model of what the building will look like to passersby, but there also will be models of the building’s heating system, traffic patterns, and electrical, plumbing and ventilation systems. None of these models is complete or accurate in every detail, but all nonetheless are useful.Communication models are like that. Different models illustrate different aspects of the process. The process itself is so complex that no single model can adequately cover it.Basic ModelTwo Bell telephone engineers, Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver, laid out a basic communication model in 1948. They were working on advanced switching systems. The model, fundamentally a simple diagram,gave them a reference point for their work. That model has become a standard baseline for describing the communication process. The Shannon-Weaver model identifies five fundamental steps in the communication process:○The human stimulation that results in a thought.○The encoding of the thought into a message.○The transmission of the message.○The decoding of the message by the recipient into a thought.○The internalization of the message by the recipient.Narrative ModelYale professor Harold Lasswell, an early mass communication theorist, developed a useful yet simple model that was all words-no diagram. Lasswell’s narrative model poses four questions: Who says what? In which channel? To whom? With what effect?You can easily apply the model. Pick any bylined story from the front page of a newspaper.○Who says what? The newspaper reporter tells a story, often quoting someone who is especially knowledgeable4 on the subject.○In which channel? In this case the story is told through the newspaper, a mass medium.○To whom? The story is told to a newspaper reader.○With what effect? The reader decides to vote for Candidate A or B,or perhaps readers just add the information to their reservoir of knowledge.The SMCR ModelThe classic model that stresses the dominance of the media was developed by Wilbur Schramm (1982), often credited as the founder of mass communication studies. He created what is known as the Source-Message-Channel-Receiver (SMCR) model.The Source-Message-Channel-Receiver(SMCR) model describes the exchange of information as the message passes from the source to the channel to the receiver, with feedback to the source.The source is the originator of the communication.The message is the content of the communication, the information that is to be exchanged.An encoder translates the message into a form that can be communicated-often a form that is not directly interpretable by human senses.A channel is the medium or transmission system used to convey the message from one place to another.A decoder reverses the encoding process.The receiver is the destination of the communication.A feedback mechanism between the source and the receiver regulates the flow of communication.Noise is any distortion or errors that may be introduced during the information exchange.This model can be applied to all forms of human communication, but here we will just illustrate it with mass communication examples. When you are at home watching a television program, the television network (a corporate source) originates the message, which is encoded by the microphones and television cameras in the television studio. The channel is not literally the number on the television dial to which you are tuned, but rather the entire chain of transmitters, satellite links, and cable television equipment required to convey the message to your home. Although we sometimes call a TV set a “receiver,” it is really the decoder and the viewer is the receiver. Feedback from viewers is via television rating services. Electronic interference with the broadcast and the distractions of barking dogs are possible noise components in this situation. The source of a message, which the author encoded with the software she used to compose the page’s content. The channel is the Internet, including the computer that the Web page is stored on, and the network connections between that computer, called a server, and your own. Your computer acts as the decoder. It decodes the message with your browser software (such as Netscape or Internet Explorer), and you are the receiver.In this classic view, mass communication is one-to-many communication,and the mass media are the various channels through which mass communication is delivered. That is, through newspapers, radio, TV, or film, the message is communicated from a single source to many receivers at about the same time, with limited opportunities for the audience to communicate back to the source.Concentric Circle ModelThe Shannon-Weaver model can be applied to all communication, but it misses some things that are unique to mass communication. In 1974 scholars Ray Hiebert, Donald Ungurait and Thomas Bohn presented an important new model-a series of concentric circles with the encoding source at the center. One of the outer rings was the receiving audience. In between were several elements that are important in the mass communication process but less so in other communication processes.The concentric circle model is one of the most complete models for identifying elements in the mass communication process, but it misses many complexities. It takes only one message from its point of origin, but in reality thousands of messages are being issued simultaneously. Audiences receive many of these messages, but not all of them, and the messages are received imperfectly. Feedback resonates back to communicators unevenly, often ill-based. Gatekeeping too is uneven. In short, there are so many variables that it is impossible to track what happens in any kind of comprehensive way.III．Review:Claude Shannon: Devised a basic communication model, with Warren Weaver.Warren Weaver: Devised a basic communication model, with Claude Shannon.basic communication model: Shows sender, encoding, transmission, decoding, receiver.Harold Lasswell: Devised the narrative model.narrative model: Describes process in words, not schematic.Thomas Bohn: Devised the concentric circle model, with Ray Hiebert, Donald Ungurait.concentric circle model: Useful radiating model of the mass communication process.Text Five Fundamentals in the ProcessI. Words Studyi) New Words:fundamental adj.基本的n.基本原则, 基本原理elements n.要素, 元素sequential adj.连续的,有顺序的stimulate v. 刺激, 激励transmission n. 播送, 发射, 传动, 传送, 传输, 转播recipient n. 容纳者, 容器internalize vt. 使内在化stimulin n. 鼓励, 刺激物panorama n. 全景，全景画pictographs n. 象形文字bang v. 重击，发巨响puff n. 一阵喷烟inverse adj. 反转的punk adj. 无用的，朋客acquittal n. 宣判无罪stir v. 搅起，激起ii) Key Words & Expressions:homophyly n. 类似性tabloid n. 小报stimulation n. 刺激encoding n. 编码transmission n. 传递decoding n. 解码internalization n. 内化STUDY PREVIEW Most models for mass communication as well as other communication forms share some fundamental elements. The elements are sequential, beginning with whatever stimulates a person to want to communicate and continuing through encoding and transmission. To complete the communication process, the recipient of the message must decode and internalize it.StimulationBoth the Shannon-Weaver model and the concentric circle model begin with a source who is stimulated to want to communicate a message. The stimulation can result from many things. Emotions can be stimuli, as can something that is sensed. The stimulation can be as diverse as seeing a beautiful panorama or hearing a child cry.EncodingThe second step is encoding. The source puts thoughts into symbols that can be understood by whomever is destined to receive the message. The symbols take many forms-for example, the written word, smoke signalsor pictographs.TransmissionThe message is the representation of the thought. In interpersonal communication the message is almost always delivered face to face. In mass communication, however, the message is encoded so that it is suitable for the equipment being used for transmission. Shannon and Weaver, being telephone engineers in the 1940s, offered the example of the sound pressure of a voice being changed into proportional electrical current for transmission over telephone lines. In technical terms, telephone lines were channels for Shannon and Weaver’s messages. On a more conceptual basis the telephone lines were the media, in the same way that the printed page or a broadcast signal is.DecodingThe receiver picks up signals sent by the transmitter. In interpersonal communication the receiver is a person who hears the message, sees it, or both. An angry message encoded as a fist banging a table is heard and perhaps felt. An insulting message encoded as a puff of cigar smoke in the face is smelled. In mass communication the first receiver of the message is not a person but the equipment that picks up and then reconstructs the message from the signal. This mechanical decoding is necessary so that the human receiver of the message can understand it. As Shannon and Weaver put it: “The receiver ordinarily performs the inverseoperation that was done by the transmitter. ”InternalizationIn mass communication a second kind of decoding occurs with the person who receives the message from the receiving equipment. This is an intrapersonal act, internalizing the message. For this second kind of decoding to work, the receiver must understand the communication form chosen by the source in encoding. Someone who reads only English will not be able to decode a message in Greek. Someone whose sensitivities are limited to punk rock will not understand Handel’s “Water Music.” In other words, the source and the receiver must have enough in common for communication to occur. This common experience, which can be as simple as speaking the same tongue, is called homophyly. In mass communication the encoder must know the audience well enough to shape messages that can be decode accurately and with the intended effect.The audience and how it perceives a message are essential in the mass communication process. This is no better illustrated than in a front-page headline in the National Examiner, a sensationalizing weekly tabloid: “Cops Think Kato Did It!” Brain “Kato” Kaelin was a pal of O. J. Simpson and had been subjected to police interviewing off and on for months before the Simpson murder trial. Kaelin sued the Examiner over the headline. In court, the Examiner said the “it” in the headline didn’trefer to the murders but to possible perjury. The Examiner argued that “it”was explained in a secondary head on Page 1: “…He Fears They Want Him for Perjury. ”A three-judge federal appeals court sided with Kaelin, saying that Examiner readers were likely to infer that the police thought he was a murder. This was despite the fact that the story made it clear that “it” was perjury, not murder, and also despite the secondary Page 1head.The judges noted that the headline came only a week after the widely reported Simpson acquittal and that, in the court’s opinion, people who had followed the trial reasonably could have interpreted “it”to be murder. The decision allowed Kaelin to pursue his $15 million legal action against the Examiner.For mass communicators the lesson is that strict, literal meanings are not always enough. Audience inferences, part of the intrapersonal decoding process, must also be considered.stimulation: Stirs someone to communicate.encoding: Putting something into symbols.transmission: Sending a message.decoding: Translating a symbolic message.internalization: Making sense of a decoded message.homophyly: A coding oneness that makes communication possible.。
