Communication code: examples

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When you talk to your friends, even if you talk to your pet, you are communicating. This action involves various factors that are implemented throughout the process. That is why we are going to focus below on knowing what is the communication code, as well as in the study of several examples to understand it better, so that you know well what this vital communicative factor consists of so that we we can understand between people, but not only that, also with our pets, and even with machines such as computers and mobiles. So in this lesson from a TEACHER that starts here, we're going to know in depth the code, its examples and its definition, as well as its role in the communication process.

Index

1. What is the communication code
2. What is communication
3. Comunication elements
4. Code examples in the communicative act

We start with the definition. What is the communication code? In this case, we refer to system of signs or signals that are used to convey a message.

That is, a language, for example, would be a code. If you speak to your parents in Spanish, you are using the spanish code.

Other codes that you can use if you know them are Morse code, binary code, Braille system, traffic signs or traffic signs. mountain for hikers, as well as any language or communicative form that serves so that two people can communicate and understand.

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But, to understand well what the communication code is, it is important to study it within its context, which would be communication itself. Thus, for this factor to be put into practice, it must also be linked to other vitally important factors.

Communication is determined by the purpose of a sender, which has to communicate with a receiver. Your intention may be to inform, beg, tell, etc., what is considered as communicative intention. To achieve this, it uses a system of signs or signals, which is the code, as we have already seen.

In addition, it must have a channel, through which the code will be issued. It can be a letter, a message, a telegram, etc. And to this we must add the thematic context in which the content to be expressed is sent and the Social context, that is, the social group to which the sender and receiver or receivers belong.

To understand communication well, it is important to know what elements they are part of it. We have already known the code, which is the one that concerns us here. But, added to this factor, we find others without which this act cannot take place:

• Transmitter: person or entity that issues a message. it can be a human being, but also an animal, a computer ...
• Receiver: it is who receives the message that, like the sender, can be human, living, etc.
• Channel: physical medium through which the message is transmitted. It could be visual or written, over the internet, over the phone, etc.
• Message: is the content that you want to transmit, and that the sender communicates to the receiver.
• Context or situation: the extralinguistic environment in which the act of communication takes place.
• Noise: noise can also be incorporated, as there could be elements that prevent the message from being transmitted properly. It can be ambient sound, deafness of the receiver, lack of understanding due to ignorance of the transmitter or receiver codes used, etc.

In this other lesson we discover you what is the sender and the receiver with examples.

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Now, we are going to know some examples in which we can identify the code in an act of communication, as well as the other factors involved:

Paco told Carolina at school that she would see each other that night.

We clearly observe that the code used is Spanish. In addition, Paco is the sender, while Carolina acts as the receiver. The message is a night out, the school is the context and the air is the channel, as they speak face to face.

Paco writes through WhatsApp: Carolina, now I'm at home. See you tonight.

In this case, we again observe that the code is Spanish, which is the language they speak. However, there are other factors that do change. Although the sender and receiver are still Paco and Carolina, and the message is an overnight meeting, now the context is Paco's house, while the channel is a mobile phone, from which he writes the transmitter.

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