MKT201 Integrated
Marketing Communications
The Communication Process
Lecture 2
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Icon Meaning Activity
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information.
Individual
Activity
Students complete an individual task.
Group Activity Students discuss/ complete activities in groups and report back to the class.
Research
required
You will need to research this and do
some reading before the next class.
Important
Concept
You MUST understand this concept to
successfully complete the subject. Seek
help if you don’t understand.
Practice
Questions
Students will complete these questions as
practice for the exam.
This Topic’s Big Idea
“Customers decode messages
differently”
Image adopted from: Hogge, P 2011, Suddenly, over Calgary, Food for the fickle grey beast, viewed 22nd of February
2016, http://theficklegreybeast.squarespace.com/journal/2013/2/2/suddenly-over-calgary.html
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Learning Objectives
• Understand how the elements of the communication process transfer, meaning from the sender to the receiver
• Understand the nature of meaning in marketing communication using a perspective known as semiotics
• Explain how marketing communicators use the three forms of figurative language (simile, metaphor and allegory)
• Explain the basic features of the two models of consumer behaviour: the consumer processing model (CPM) and the hedonic, experiential model (HEM).
Communication has
four important elements
Communication - a dynamic process in which people attempt to share their internal states with other people through the use of symbols
Four elements of communication:
– Information
– People
– Time
– Format
The Communication
Process
Wrong intended message?
Watch Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79J36377nBk
Can you think of any other examples, where
companies failed to deliver intended
message to its consumers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79J36377nBk
Effective Communication
Effective communication ensures that the
message from the sender to the receiver is
based on a common meaning.
A lack of common meaning can lead to:
• a waste of resources
• an ineffective message.
Communications for the 21st
century
Technology will influence:
– how information reaches consumers
– who seeks out information
– places where information can be gathered,
outside of those created by marketers.
A two-way communication model for this
technology- driven age needs to be adopted.
A communication Process for
the 21st Century
The meaning of
the message
Meaning is developed by accomplishing
specific
brand-level objectives.
Meaning can be derived from a number of
perspectives.
• Semiotics
• Symbols
Semiotics
Semiotics – is the study of signs and the analysis of meaning- producing events
Sign – is something physical and perceivable that signifies something (the referent) to somebody (the interpreter) in some context.
Symbol - a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process
Watch Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =llZk-ejfDcA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llZk-ejfDcA
Semiotics (Cont.)
The Use of Symbols, Signals,
and Signs
Adopted from: All about India, The Complete Guide to India, viewed 9th of
February 2016, http://www.all-about-india.com/Flag-of-India.html
Adopted from: Ajay, S, 2015, Symbols: an effective marketing communication tool in
branding, International Journal of Research in Commerce, IT & management, Vol 5 issue 10,
pp1-4, viewed 9th of February 2016 from EBSCHO Business Source Corporate Database
http://www.all-about-india.com/Flag-of-India.html