The Importance Of Language And Communication

Language and Communication

2. Humans communicate in many ways, both verbally and non-verbally. Select any paralinguistic method of communication, define it, and explain how it functions in the ability of humans to communicate. (10 Points)

When humans speak, they use a variety of ways to get their message to their receiver. The channel in which the message travels to the receiver can represent many different things. For example, tone of voice, body language, or even the use of sarcasm could affect the way the message is sent. There are many different types of paralinguistic such as voice, eyes, smell, clothing, touch and kinesics. I am going to focus on kinesics, which is body language. There is a system of postures, facial expressions,

Conscious body language is taught, and example of this would be referee signals. Unconscious body language is learned informally, an example of this is pointing. Pointing can give off many different messages. In American society, pointing conveys the message of telling someone where a person, place, or thing is. In other cultures, pointing is a threat gesture. There are also gender differences in body stance, women tend to keep their legs together, lean back, and cross their arms. Men tend to have their hands in their pockets, and have a stance that is more relaxed. Men and women have different ways of conveying the message when they are attracted to someone. Edward and Milgrid Hall studied the similarities and differences in men and women courtship. Women begin playing with their hair, straighten their clothes, stand upright, rub forearms, and much more. Men tend to fix their hair, straighten their clothes,

There are two examinations that Sapire discovered, the first one is the SAE, which stands for standard average Europe. He found that the SAE believes that they can measure time through years, months, days, hours, and seconds. The Hopi think of time like a circle, it is constantly looping on itself. They don t have detailed expressions for time, because they don’t have detailed thoughts about it like Western Europeans do. They came to the conclusion that language over time allowed Western Europe to industrialize and the Hopi not to. The particular treatment of language by the Hopi reduced their opportunities of having complex thoughts about time, because their words for describing it were very limited. Language has a profound effect on how humans think and interact with one