1 / 56

Nonverbal Communication

Nonverbal Communication. Muhammad Ayub Attari Course Coordinator. What Does It Mean?. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have potential to turn a life around.

lael-malone
Download Presentation

Nonverbal Communication

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Nonverbal Communication Muhammad Ayub Attari Course Coordinator

  2. What Does It Mean? Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaqlia

  3. Categories of Communication • Verbal communication, in which you listen to persons to understand their meaning. • Written communication, in which you read their meaning. • Nonverbal communication(NVC), in which you observe a person and infer meaning.

  4. What is Nonverbal Communication? No one definition Dr. A. O’Brien

  5. Verbal and Nonverbal are so intertwined that there’s a fuzzy line between them.

  6. The idea is… there are categories of communication that overlap some aspects of each other.

  7. It’s not as simple as: WORDS NO WORDS

  8. Pioneer in nonverbal researchRay Birdwhistell Defines nonverbal communication • ... the signals to which meaning will be attributed

  9. Some More Definitions Of NVC Non-verbal communication consists of the feelings or emotions we convey behind the words we speak verbally

  10. Definitions NVC “Transmission of messages by a medium other than speech or writing” (Non-verbal communication, 2011).

  11. Definitions of NVC “Non-verbal communication includes pitch, speed, tone and volume of voice; gestures and facial expressions; body posture, stance, and proximity to the listener; eye movements and contact; and dress and appearance” (Non-verbal communication, 2011).

  12. A Strange Truth According to one study, only 7% of a Receiver’s comprehension of a Message is based on the Sender’s actual words; 38% is based on paralanguage (the tone, pace, and volume of speech), and 55% is based on nonverbal cues (body language).

  13. Significance of Tone

  14. Note: • some sounds are not vocal, • e.g., snapping one’s fingers, stamping a foot • …nv includes vocal and nonvocal phenomena

  15. American sign language is verbal... but silent

  16. Also other vocal phenomena • more sounds than words e.g., zap...buzz

  17. Categorizes implicit or non verbal behavior • Immediacy • Status • Responsiveness

  18. CLASSIFYING NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR

  19. Body Motion (Kinesic Gestures) Movements of the: • Body • Limbs • Head • feet and legs • facial expressions • eye behavior • posture

  20. Some movements provide information about emotions • Some give info about personality traits or attitude

  21. Ekman & Friesen Classification of nonverbal acts

  22. Emblems • symbol: something that visually symbolizes an object, idea, group. • nonverbal acts with • a direct verbal translation • a word or two or a phrase... generally culture specific

  23. Emblems • Thumbs up OK • V with fingers peace • Finger pointed to temple suicide • Hand grasping throat choke • hand to mouth eating • tilt head, eyes closed sleeping

  24. Use of Emblems (a) • Insults • Directions come go stop slow down • Greetings • Departures

  25. Use of Emblems (b) selected responses to questions yes no maybe I don’t knowphysical stateemotion triumphant angry sad

  26. Part of body associated with emblems • Often the hands... but not exclusively • Nose wrinkle Disgust • Drop of the jaw and exaggeratedraising of the eyebrows Surprise • Upturned palms, shrugged shoulders Uncertainty

  27. Use of Emblems 1 • When verbal channels of communication are blocked • Sign language of the deaf • Gestures used by television production personnel • Gestures used by team

  28. Use of Emblems 2 • Signs between two underwater swimmers. • Motions made by people too far apart to hear each other well. • We choose emblems the way we choose words • We don’t think very much about it. • We generally don’t string emblems together.

  29. Illustrators • directly tied to speech - movements that • accentuate a word or phrase • sketch a path of thought • point to present objects • depict a spatial relationship • depict the pacing of an event • draw a picture of the referent • depict bodily action

  30. Illustrators They may also be emblems used to illustrate verbal statements;but you leave the word out and use the emblem.

  31. Aware of the illustrators? • Less deliberate than emblems. (They seem to be within the realm of awareness, but we are not as aware of them as we are of emblems which we use much more deliberately.)

  32. Frequency of Illustrators • ...more in face to face situations • ...fewer over the intercom or telephone • ... in excitement and enthusiastic situations • ... when the receiver isn’t getting the message through words alone • ... when you can’t find the right word

  33. Affect Displays • Facial configurations that display affective states: sad tired ecstatic • Used to: • Repeat • Augment • contradict • can be unrelated to verbal affective statements.

  34. Affect Displays • Can occur without our knowing it; (Once it happens we are aware of it.) • We may or may not want to communicate our affective state through such displays

  35. Regulators 1 Non verbal acts that maintain and regulate the interactions between two or more participants.

  36. Regulators 2 • They can tell the speaker to: continue hurry up become more interesting explain let the other talk

  37. Turn-taking regulators (the most studied kind) Head tilting Nods Eye contact e.g. less eye contact if you want to terminate conversation.

  38. Status of regulators • On the periphery of our awareness; hard to stop them. • Almost involuntary • We may not be aware of doing it ourselves, but are very aware when others do it to us.

  39. Adaptors • Learned early in life • Less well documented • Less well understood

  40. Self-Adaptors Manipulations of own body indicating increase in anxiety Examples • holding • scratching • picking oneself • eye-cover contact - (might be shame or sadness)

  41. Alter-Adaptors Related to interpersonal behaviors; probable holdovers from early aggression, fleeing, fighting Examples: leg movements looking over shoulder before gossiping

  42. Object adaptors Learned later in life - more socially acceptable • stroking a pipe • tapping a pencil • hands in pockets • twisting a ring

  43. Physical Characteristics • Not all nonverbal communication comes through movement and motion • Some are static self presentation characteristics • body height • Weight • Hair • skin color, tone • breath odor

  44. Touching Behavior guiding another’s motion (Haptics) strokingpushing

  45. Paralanguage • How - not what you say. • Speech behavior • Voice quality and pitch • Range and rhythm control • Tempo • Articulation • Resonance • Glottis control • Vocal and lip control

  46. Vocalizations • Non verbal sounds - not words, but convey a meaning. • Divided into three categories: • vocal characterizers • vocal qualifiers • vocal segregates

  47. vocal characterizers • Laughing • Sighing • Crying • Belching • Inhaling • Excessive groaning • Whining • Yelling • Whispering

  48. vocal qualifiers • intensity (loud-soft) • pitch height • high-low • extreme drawl to extreme clipping

  49. vocal segregates (separators) “um” “uh” “ah”

More Related