Elements of Communicative Acts Explained
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Carlos tells Sandra on the phone, I will take the plane at 8:00 am.
Sender Message Canal Receptor
Code
Carlos I will take the plane. Thread
telephone Sandra Language
Students must create a table with the following columns:
Sender
Message
Canal
Receptor
Code
ELEMENTS OF THE COMMUNICATIVE ACT
SENDER: It is the individual who transmits the message.
RECEIVER: It is the individual who receives the message.
MESSAGE: It is the information given in the communicative act.
CANAL: It is the medium through which the message travels (visual, oral, written...)
CODE: It is the language through which the message is constructed (language or other system of
signs)
CONTEXT: It is the situation that surrounds the communicative act.
VARIOUS EXAMPLES OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTS
Ismael sends a message on Tuenti to his friend Javi.
Ismael
Javi
What Ismael tells Javi.
CHANNEL: Visual/written
Code: Spanish
CONTEXT: Two friends are communicating over the Internet.
2. Begoña explains the determiners on the board to the students of 2ndD.
Begoña
RECEPTOR: The students
Information about the determinants
Auditory/oral channel
Code: Spanish
CONTEXT: Language class at the institute.
3. My father stops in front of a STOP sign with the car.
SIGNAL: Traffic sign
RECEIVER: My father
MESSAGE: We need to stop
CHANNEL: Visual
CODE: Iconic (it is the one that uses symbols)
Context: Driving down the road in the car.
Inés tells her deaf-mute brother, named Luis, the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
Inés
Luis
Little Red Riding Hood
CHANNEL: Gestural/visual
CODE: Sign language
CONTEXT: A girl tells a story to her brother at home.
A blind boy (Abel) reads Neruda.
Neruda
Abel
Neruda's poems.
CANAL: Tactile
CODE: Braille Alphabet
CONTEXT: Abel reads to the poet in his house (it could be anywhere else)
Jacinta calls her father on the phone to tell him that she will visit him that afternoon. The elements
what
the following intervene:
The sender: Jacinta.
The receiver: his father.
The code: the Spanish language used by both.
The message: the set of phrases that are exchanged.
The channel: telephony (either by cable or by satellite).
The situation and the context: the external world that things refer to.
of those who speak and, especially, the world they share among themselves and that
make your messages make sense.
María says to José: 'I love you very much'
Who sent the message? Maria
RECEIVER: Who was the message sent to? José
REFERENCE: What generated the creation of the message? Affection, care, love.
What did María say to José? "I love you very much"
CODE: What did it create the message with? Words, language, Spanish.
CHANNEL: How or with what did he send the message? Air, sound waves (because he is speaking).
CONTEXT: Where was the message sent? Where María and José are, house, school,
street, park, etc.
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A RED TRAFFIC LIGHT.
ISSUER: The General Directorate of Traffic.
RECEIVER: Vehicle drivers.
We must stop.
CODE: Traffic Code.
CHANNEL: The traffic light itself.
SITUATION: In Torrejón de Ardoz, on Avda. de la Constitución, at eight
in the morning, a day when I am in a hurry.
2. A TELEDIARY.
BROADCASTER: The news services of a network.
The viewers.
The news content that is provided.
CODE: Spanish.
CHANNEL: The television.
SITUATION: In my house, at three in the afternoon, on a rainy day, while I prepare
the food.
3. THE TEACHER ASKS A STUDENT: 'WHAT IS AN ADJECTIVE?'
SENDER: The teacher.
RECEIVER: The student.
Ask what an adjective is.
CODE: Spanish.
CHANNEL: The air.
SITUATION: In Language class of 1st year of Baccalaureate at Victoria Kent.
4. UN S.O.S.
The captain of the ship.
RECEIVER: Anyone who can receive it.
Help.
CODE: Morse Code.
CANAL: The telegraph and the air.
SITUATION: In the middle of the Atlantic, a Spanish fishing boat is in danger
to sink due to a storm.
A LOVE POEM FOR A GIRL YOU LIKE.
You.
THE GIRL YOU LIKE.
That she is very beautiful and that you love her very much (for example).
CODE: Spanish.
CANAL: The paper on which it is written.
SITUATION: At the end of class, you go to their school and hand them the poem for
to read it at home.
6. DURING AN ATTACK BY HIS TEAM, A PLAYER RAISES THE
HAND TOWARDS THE TEAMMATE WHO HAS THE BALL.
SENDER: The one who raises their hand.
RECEIVER: The one who carries the ball.
Pass it to me, they're not calling me.
CODE: Body expression, gestural language.
CANAL: The air.
SITUATION: With five minutes left in the game, when their
the team is losing 1-0.
7. DON QUIXOTE.
Cervantes.
The reader.
The story of Don Quixote.
CODE: Spanish.
CHANNEL: The book.
SITUATION: At eight in the evening, at my house, in winter, I am going to read 'The
"Don Quixote" because I was assigned it in class.
Two people greet each other by shaking hands.
Both people.
RECEIVER: Both people.
Hello, how are you?
CODE: Gestural, body expression.
CHANNEL: The hands.
SITUATION: Before a meeting, two representatives from different companies
they greet each other before starting to converse.
A person sticks their tongue out at you.
SENDER: The person who sticks out their tongue.
RECEIVER: You.
He/She is mocking you.
CODE: Gestural, body expression.
CHANNEL: The air.
SITUATION: On the street, one weekend, with your friends, and you don't
You stop joking with a friend and she, fed up, decides to make fun of you.
A movie in the cinema.
The director and the screenwriter.
The spectator.
The content of the movie.
CODE: Many: the language in which it is made, gestural, musical, iconic,...
CANAL: The film itself and the screen.
SITUATION: On a Saturday afternoon, since you have nothing to do and it is raining,