Adeola Abdulateef Elega

2.1.2 Interactive Model 
Interactive model showed that listeners give feedback as a response to the source. 
The model also highlighted the meaning creating and interpretation content of 
interpersonal communication. Interactive model of interpersonal communication is 
an upshot of linear model of interpersonal communication but if failed to correct the 
fact that one person does not just stay as the sender and the receiver stays at the 
receiver. In the real sense, it is never so in interpersonal communication. The word 
“inter” means between and among. Interpersonal communication is a give and take 
kind of communication. The conversation between a car driver and the passengers is 
not one way. The conversation between the air hostess and the passengers of the 
plane is not one way. Introducing medio communication and an example of a 
conversation between Turkcell customer care agent and a new international student 
in EMU is not one way. The conversation between a Master’s student and his/her 
supervisor is not one way. These examples are few out of the millions of 
interpersonal communication activities we engage in on days of our life and they are 
mostly not one way (Wood, 2007 p.19). 
2.1.3 Transactional Models 
Transactional model gives a more complete and realistic view of give and take 
feature of interpersonal communication. The model showed noise, meaning creating, 
sender/receiver simultaneous communication and basic interpersonal communication 
features (Wood, 2007 pp.18-19). The model as first projected by Barnlund (1970) is 
a viable model of interpersonal communication. The model states directly that 
interpersonal communication is prone to change and it has a particular cause 
intended which is to send and receive messages at the same time. This postulated 

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idea says the process of exchange of information happens between two participants 
(Masquerading, 2014). 
Barlund states what he called process of transferability and he posits that it will 
become private cues and the process which will continue as private cues will become 
public cues too. Communication is made up of transactions. Messages or stimulus 
that provides information on what to do works on each other. The use of jagged lines 
in Barlunds Model of Communication shows “the number of cues to which meaning 
may be assigned is probably without limit”. He also accedes that some cues will 
carry more meaning than some other cues. Transactional model emphasizes the 
significance culture, language and things of interest to a particular group of people 
(Mheducation, 2014). 
Figure 2: Dean Barnlund (1970) Transactional Model 
http://www.shkaminski.com/Classes/Handouts/Communication%20Models.htm
 
(Communication Models, 2015) 

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