Nonverbal communication – Language within Language - Dr Alpesh B Joshi (original) (raw)
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2016
Nonverbal communication is the norm of human communication because it makes up around its two thirds. About the complexity of nonverbal communication witness numerous definitions that exist on the topic; possibly as many as there are textbooks. The simplest definition is that it is an elaborate code written nowhere, known to none, and understood by all. Because of its complexity, it is important and the best to use the multidisciplinary approach to study and understand nonverbal communication. A multidisciplinary approach explores different cues of nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication is also referred to as body language because it involves haptics, proxemics, kinesics, eye behaviour, facial expressions. These are the subcodes of nonverbal communication discussed in this paper. The subcodes represent how we communicate through space and territory, our physical appearance and dress, kinesics, the voice, the use of time and olfaction. Among dealing with such subcodes as pr...
Non-verbal Communication: Gestures
Every communication interaction involves two types of messages: verbal messages (or the spoken words) and nonverbal cues, commonly referred to as 'nonverbal communication'
Nonverbal Communication from the Other Side: Speaking Body Language
Social Science Research Network, 1990
Nonverbal communication has been noticed for centuries 1 and recently has become a major focus of attention for researchers and practitioners in many different fields. 2 Although nonverbal communication has been subjected to intensive scientific study for over twenty-five years, 3 lawyers have just begun to realize what others have long known: nonverbal behavior is extremely important in determining the nature of communication and the relationship between the communicators. 4
Body Language and its understanding
Title: To study how well students of Journalism and Mass Communication understands body language from Madhu Bala Institute of Communication and Electronic Media. Although verbal communication is what we say to each other, nonverbal communication makes up 93% of our communication package. Emotions, gestures, body language, space, and time are used extensively through sheer amounts of verbal communication. Furthermore, when we know that it is easy to lie, it is more difficult to show lies; thus, nonverbal communication is more reliable than verbal. Nonverbal communication is an important and powerful part of communication. It is a large, all-encompassing area, and according to itthe definition of nonverbal is quite broad. Any nonlinguistic variable in nonverbal communication receiver has a stimulating meaning. Any communicative component other than language, stimulating some sort of message in the receiver's mind is part of nonverbal communication. This research also deals with the meaning, definition, types, functions, components communication and furthermore, detailed information about non-verbal communication as well. This research has been done keeping in mind that every section of society from all over the world can get information by reading it. For sampling purpose only, the researcher segmented and targeted his respondents from the reachable geographical region around his vicinity. In order for more solid proof to what the student of journalism and mass communication knows about, a survey was conducted, among students of MBICEM.
We provide and receive thousands of wordless messages everyday with the help of gestures without being aware of the non-verbal clues. Currently, the systematic study of non-verbal communication or kinesics has come into existence. Kinesics studies make an observation of real-world interaction rather than concentrating on scientific studies. The interpretation of body language on the basis of these studies has contributed substantially to communication. While interacting with people we involuntarily respond to various non-verbal codes. Non-verbal communication experts are of different opinion if the gestures are learned or instinctive. Paralinguistic feature plays a vital role for communication. 2. LITERATURE REVIEW: Desmond Morris in his book published in 1978, Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behaviour notes that human beings distinguish themselves from animals by 'thinking' and 'building'. Kinesics gestures or body language movements are 'built' and not always 'instinctive'makes more sense if we agree with Morris's views. Desmond Morris's classification of non-verbal communication into five types: Inborn, Discovered, Absorbed, Trained and Mixed were accepted by many cultural anthropologists and can act as a standard classification. Inborn non-verbal signals are not explicitly taught. We know how to do them without being taught. We identify these signals when we watch them being informed. They are the same in all clusters of the world. Smiling, crying, frowning, facial-flushing, blinking, clearing throat etc. are all clearly inborn or innate and these signals signify the same attitudes and emotions in cultures all round the world. It is important to note that cultural factors may affect the gestures to some extent. An Indian may cry aloud whereas a British will sob softly. Discovered actions are adopted upon discovery. We discover easily some gestures and adopt them to our use in expression. Actions such as crossing legs, crossing arms and
Reading the Signs: Intersemioticity and Non-Verbal Communication
Moving between Modes. Papers in Intersemiotic Translation in Memoriam Professor Alina Kwiatkowska, 2020
Jakobson (1971) stressed the semiotic value of all five senses in human society such that syncretic messages, that is, those based on a combination of several sign patterns are brought together. The reading and interpretation of non-verbal signs has often involved a comparison with verbal communication in order to examine the extent to which the two sign systems, that is 'body language' and spoken language, are congruent. The study of non-verbal communication in terms of posture, gestures, and facial expressions has long tradition in terms of a populist psychological literature that is predicated upon the notion that the body can speak louder than words, that it can reveal 'hidden' thoughts and feelings. This offering, of a revelatory analysis of the body's sign value, is a defining rhetorical aspect of this field of study. The power to reveal the body's language trades upon a linkage between body and mind in which the embodied person emits signals that displays their inner psychology. These signals are taken as requiring expert interpretation in terms of reading their intersemiotic value and meaning. Analyses of this kind trade upon forging a linkage between body and mind in which the embodied person emits signals that displays their "inner" psychology during interaction and particularly in relation to status, power and relationships. This sustains a visual ideology of the communicative body. The study of non-verbal communication or body language as it is commonly known, is popular amongst laypeople as well as being an established area of academic psychology. There has been a thriving populist and academic literature in the field in recent years (e.g.
Nonverbal Communication, Interaction, and Gesture
De Gruyter eBooks, 1981
If we are to understand fully any instance of a person's non-verbal behavior-that is, any movement or position of the face and/or the body-we must discover how that behavior became part of the person's repertoire, the circumstances of its use, and the rules which explain how the behavior contains or conveys information. We will call these three fundamental considerations ORIGIN, USAGE, and CODING. The interrelationships among and the differences within these three aspects of nonverbal behavior are extremely complex. The task of unraveling nonverbal behavior in these terms is enormously difficult; and it becomes impossible if we fail to consider the possibility of multiple categories of nonverbal behavior. The need to develop such a categorical scheme has emerged from the results of our empirical studies over the past eight years, and has been crystallized by our two current research projects, the study of crosscultural differences in nonverbal behavior, and the study of nonverbal leakage of information during deceptive situations. We will briefly trace how some of the findings raised questions which led us to attempt to 1 Part of this paper was given at the Symposium: ''Communication Theory and Linguistic Models in the Social Sciences" at the Center for Social Research of the
C21: Communicating in the 21st Century 4/e, 2016
Nonverbal communication can be a very powerful tool in understanding ourselves and others. Are nonverbal communication and body language the same? No, they are not. Body language involves the physical behaviour of our bodies -eye contact, posture, gesture, orientation and so forth -while nonverbal communication embraces all body language communication, and also includes clothing and adornment, environmental factors and even the manner in which we use time. Nonverbal communication concepts feature heavily in other chapters in this book.