ARELLANO UNIVERSITY
53 General Kalentong St. Mandaluyong
Senior High School Program
Dynamic Learning Program in Oral Communication
Grade 11
Week 7 – FIRST QUARTER
TOPIC: FUNCTIONS OF COMMUNICATION (REGULATIONS AND CONTROL)
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. Define regulation and control as a function of communication.
2. Identify the verbal and nonverbal cues that a speaker employs to achieve his or her purpose.
3. Analyze and make a reflection regarding regulation and control as a function of communication.
ABSTRACTION / CONCEPT NOTES
FUNCTION OF COMMUNICATION (REGULATIONS AND CONTROL)
Regulation/Control as a function of communication means being able to use language, gestures,
and emotions to manage individual or group activities such as a parent telling a child not to misbehave
or a policeman directing pedestrians not to jaywalk but cross on the pedestrian lane.
➢ For example: A mother asking her son to wash the dishes after eating their lunch.
Mother: “Before you play outside, please wash the dishes.”
Son: “Yes, mom!”
Usually, when it comes to the regulation function, one person has the authority, or higher level of
command to another person. As for example in a mother-child relationship.
❖ USES OF COMMUNICATION
➢ control human behavior
➢ regulate the nature and number of activities humans engage in.
➢ Examples:
• doctor’s prescriptions,
• parents’ instructions to their children
• scolding
• employers’ orders to employees
• customer’s making orders
• etc.
❖ LANGUAGE FORMS FOR REGULATION/CONTROL
➢ Form of Commands (Imperatives)
- Please come in.
- Get a chair.
- Run.
➢ Questions that influence human behavior:
- Why don't we go to the dining room now?
- Do you have a pen?
- Can you pass the salt?
➢ Declaratives
- I want to be alone.
- It’s hot in here.
- You need to hurry.
- That’s not the right thing to do.
Regulation/Control is observable if we focus on the Verbal and Nonverbal cues used by the Speaker to
achieve his/her purpose.
A. Verbal cues are the specific words chosen and used. The Speaker and the Listener, when using verbal
cues, should be respectful of each other’s culture as well as of their age, gender, social status, and
religion. The words are usually directives, orders, requests, etc., meant to regulate and control other
people’s behavior.
B. Nonverbal cues include hand gestures, bodily action (including posture), vocal tone (paralanguage),
and eye contact. The Speaker and the Listener, when exhibiting nonverbal cues, should be respectful
of each other’s culture as well as of their age, gender, social status, and religion. The tone and the
bodily action that accompany the words are authoritative and firm. Eye contact is direct.
Importance of regulation/control
➢ Sense of control over our lives and the world around us, else, we feel powerless.
➢ Communication as a means to regulate/control human behavior ranges from simple requests to laws
governing large countries and territories.
➢ It is a powerful function of language.
