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Communication lectures on:

Communication lectures on:. Language: Using Patterned Sound Non-Verbal Communication: Using the Body The Meaning of Objects: Using Style Manipulating Space: Using our Surroundings. Characterizing Space.

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  1. Communicationlectures on: Language: Using Patterned Sound Non-Verbal Communication: Using the Body The Meaning of Objects: Using Style Manipulating Space: Using our Surroundings

  2. Characterizing Space • Objects, the spaces between and around them, and their relationships to one another, are an important in the study of both biophysical sciences (such as physics and biochemistry) and social sciences (such as anthropology, geography, sociology, psychology). • Social scientists study the use of space by dividing it up into broad, general categories. In the U.S., intimate distance 0 - 18 inches personal distance 18 inches - 4 feet social distance 4 - 10 feet public distance beyond 10 feet

  3. Intimate and Personal Space • Your ‘intimate distance’ is the immediate space around you. It varies from culture to culture, but generally can be identified by a sense of discomfort when ‘invaded’ by an inappropriate person. • Your ‘personal distance’ regulates face-to-face interactions. I Have No Gun But I Can Spit Some thirty inches from my nose The frontier of my Person goes, And all the untilled air between Is private pagus or demesne. Stranger, unless with bedroom eyes I beckon you to fraternize, Beware of rudely crossing it: I have no gun, but I can spit. W. H. Auden

  4. Personal Space • The distance increases if you are talking to a stranger. • The better you know the person you're talking to, the closer you stand. • The circumstances of the encounter matter. • Generally, two men stand further apart than two women. • If a man and a woman are in a relationship, the distance between them diminishes. • Culturally acceptable distance differs from individual to individual and culture to culture.

  5. Social Space

  6. Public Space A Failure of Planned Public Space: Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project in St. Louis Brasilia: Planned and Un-Planned Public Space

  7. Body Language • intentional and unintentional aspects • varies across cultures (unlike emotional expression) • important for marking social difference • source of cultural misunderstandings (examples: the train to Poitiers, in a Pamplona street) Read an interesting study about mixed-message body/face language at: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1492759.htm

  8. Using Body Language • In business, diplomacy, personal relations

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