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Nonverbal Messages: Body & Sound

Nonverbal Messages: Body & Sound. Chapter 6. Nonverbal Communication. Massages expressed by other than linguistic means. I. Body Communication. Kinesics- Body Positions and Motion Body Orientation Posture Gestures. Emblems. Illustrators. Affect Displays. Regulators. Adaptors.

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Nonverbal Messages: Body & Sound

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  1. Nonverbal Messages: Body & Sound Chapter 6

  2. Nonverbal Communication • Massages expressed by other than linguistic means

  3. I. Body Communication Kinesics- Body Positions and Motion Body Orientation Posture Gestures Emblems Illustrators Affect Displays Regulators Adaptors

  4. Body Orientation: The degree to which we face toward or away from someone during communication. • Posture: The alignment of or bodies • Gestures: The movement of the arms and hands

  5. Emblems are a nonverbal substitute for the verbal message • Deliberate nonverbal behaviors that have a very precise meaning, known to everyone within a group.

  6. The fish was this big Illustratorsvisually demonstrate & accompany the verbal message

  7. Affect Displaysany emotional response

  8. Regulatorsgroup of behaviors that encourage or discourage communication

  9. Adaptors satisfy some need

  10. Facial Communicationthe communication of emotions • A. Face Management • Intensifying = exaggerate expression. • De-intensifying = to underplay an expression • Neutralizing = to hide any expression of feelings • Masking = to replace one expression with another

  11. Eye Communication Functions of Eye Contact • 1. seek feedback • regulate the flow of communication • 3. signal the nature of the relationship • a. duration & quality

  12. b. visual dominance = aggressive stare c. Eye Avoidance

  13. Paralanguagethe vocal, but nonverbal, dimension of speech. Refers to the manner in which you say something rather than what you say • A. Rate • B. Volume • C. Pitch • D. Rhythm • E. Silence • F. Disfluencies

  14. I need this job done right now. • I need this job done right now. • I need this job done right now. • I need this job done right now.

  15. I. Spatial Messages • A. Edward T. Hall’s 4 Spatial Distances • Intimate • Personal • Social • Public

  16. 1. Intimate: 0 - 18” 2. Personal: 18” - 4’

  17. 3.Social: 4’ -12’ 4. Public: 12-25’

  18. B. Theories About Space • 1. Protection Theory = you establish a body buffer zone around yourself as protection against unwanted touching or attack

  19. Closeness Means Intimacy • 2. Equilibrium Theory = intimacy and distance vary together

  20. Distance Means Nonintimate

  21. Territoriality = possessive reaction to objects/area • A. Home Field Advantage • B. Markers 1. central = place items in the middle to show ownership

  22. 2. boundary = separates your territory from another

  23. 3. ear marker = identifying mark of property

  24. III. Artifacts = messages conveyed by objects that were made by human hands • A. Space Decoration • B. Color Communication • C. Clothing & Body Adornment

  25. D. Scent (Olfactics) • 1. Attraction • 2. Taste • 3. Memory • 4. Identification

  26. III. Temporal Communication (Chronemics) A. Cultural Time

  27. 1. formal time = manner in which culture defines time 2. informal time = loose use of time terms "soon"

  28. B. Monochronism &Polychronism • 1. monochronic (M-time) = value punctuality, one event at a time • 2. polychronic (P-time) =process is more important than the schedule a. do not value punctuality b. do many events at once

  29. Psychological Time = emphasis on past, present, or future 1. developed by your culture (SES, frame of reference)

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