When we say elements of communication, we pertain to the the individual component that makes up the communication.
There are six common elements of communication.
1. Sender- someone who sends or transfer ideas, thoughts, emotion to someone.
2. Encoding- the act of turning your ideas into something that the other person will understand (ideas to language)
3. Message- this carries the ideas
4. Decoding- the act of interpreting ideas
5. Receiver- someone who decodes the idea and make response
6. Feedback- response to message that in interpreted
There are other elements but these are the common ones. You can comment below if you want to add ideas. Thanks.