Introduction Have you ever heard the saying “actions speak louder than words?” When we think of communication, we think of it as just a verbal communication. Although this may be true, we also tend to use nonverbal actions such as body movement, gestures, facial expressions, eye-contact, and our dressing appearance. These actions allow us to reinforce or substitute our verbal communication. When we communicate we often times believe our nonverbal communication more than our verbal communication. Communication plays an essential role in our lives and how we act and react. Some of the things I am going to explain is how I preformed the experiment to study proxemics and what the outcome of the experiment was. After conducting this experiment, I came to realize how much we actually rely on both senses of communication and the amount of use we use of nonverbal communication in our everyday life.
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I have decided to experiment the study of proxemics on the patients that come to the office, today. My job is to take the patients back and sit them in a room so the doctors can see them. We have rooms on both sides of the walls, left and right. I will preform my experiment on October 10, 2015 and continue it starting at 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Throughout the day, I will tell each patient where to go, in the right direction, verbally, but point in the wrong direction using nonverbal communication. I will watch their reactions to see which one they believe and listen to
Nonverbal communication surrounds us all the time. “Nonverbal communication is all aspects of communication other than words” (Wood, 2016, p. 135). It is not communication with words, but we use nonverbal communication when we talk. We use nonverbal communication without even realizing it in every facet of our lives. This type of communication can be challenging depending on someone’s culture. Something that means one thing in America, can mean something totally different in another country. It is important to know this so that you don’t offend someone from another culture (Wood, 2016, p. 149).
I will now be evaluating a couple concepts from chapter six of Interplay, in which the focus is on nonverbal communication and how it can communicate meaning to others without the use of words. One of the first concepts that I would like to address is how nonverbal communication is very ambiguous, as it can be interpreted in several different ways. When communication is nonverbal, it is up to the interpretation of the receiver, just as all forms of communication are. However, nonverbal communication is even more so, as with verbal communication thoughts are being voiced, but silence can be interpreted as “warmth, anger, preoccupation, boredom, nervousness, thoughtfulness – The possibilities are many.” (Adler, Rosenfeld, Proctor, 2015, pg. 176)
Humans have been communicating for thousands of years using nonverbal and non-written ways by giving specific gestures like, facial expressions, body movements and postures, eye contact, touch, and space between individuals. The way someone looks, moves, stands, and positions themselves tells the other person if your care, how closely you’re paying attention and tells them if you’ve been truthful. When your nonverbal communications match up with your subconscious actions, like the look on your face they increase trust, confidence, and rapport. But when they don’t, they can create pressure, suspicion, mistrust, and confusion.
In this assignment, we made observations of nonverbal behaviors which are utilized in everyday life as a form of communication whether we know it or not. There are many ways that individuals’ are capable of communicating without even saying anything, such as, an individual rolling their eyes can display they’re annoyed, smiling at someone can portray that the individual is happy, and so on. Nonverbal communication uses many different aspects of life to portray meaning, such as, behaviors, attributes, symbols, or objects (Seiler, Beall, & Mazer, 2015, p. 109). When partaking in this assignment, I found that utilizing nonverbal communication was much easier than verbal, but I did feel peculiar when participating in these acts. The goal for the assignment was to find a nonverbal norm that we wanted to violate, and then we needed to violate this norm three different times. Once we had violated the norm we needed to observe and analyze the reactions we received. The norms that we had the option to violate were kinesics, oculesics, haptics, etc. I just so happen to pick kinesics, which is using movements or gestures to portray nonverbal communication.
Nonverbal communication is rich in meaning. Everyone communicates through nonverbal gestures and motions. I realized that you can decipher a lot from an individual or individuals by just paying close attention to what they do, and that words are not really necessary. Watching two people interacting, I figured that they are really close by their space communication, eye language, and body movements.
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The first conversation with someone you know. The first person I talked to was my son Joseph. Our conversation lasted about thirty to thirty-five minutes. In opening the conversation I asked him if he was ready for bed not knowing that the conversation would move into a more sensitive topic in which it was about his Asperger. Joe’s Asperger is a very sensitive topic and he doesn’t like to talk about so I was surprised that he was willing bring up the conversation on his own. I wasn’t going to pass up on this conversation, so I began with a question to keep the conversation going and then give feedback when needed. I would say that this conversation was 50/50. We both took turns with saying how we felt, what we could do to solve any problems, and etc. I listened, and gave him the best feedback in a supportive and loving way. There were some points when Joe had a hard time completing sentences in a smoot and accrete way, he sometimes has to rephrase, but I know this, am patient, wait for him to gather his thought, and say what he means. Nonverbal communication with Joe is a little hard at times because he can go on about something and not let the other person take a turn, but he has gotten a lot better at this.
Good communication is an essentialvalue for successful relationships, whether personal or professional. Many researchers have stated that most of our communication is non-verbal. Non-verbal communication includes body language, facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, posture, and the tone of our voice. The ability to understand and use non-verbal communication is great skills that will help individualsconnect with others, when trying express feelings, handlingdifficultsituations and creating relationships with other in various places.Non-verbal communication is the body way of sending messages between people. These messages can be sent through emotions, gestures, engagement, voice tone, posture, and clothing.
The world, as of the 21st century, is increasingly becoming an interconnected, interrelated social place in which avoidance of human interaction is near impossible. From telephone calls to advertising billboards, communication is ubiquitous. Communication essentially refers to the generation and receiving of messages across a variety of contexts, channels, media, and cultures. This complex interaction is composed of both verbal and non-verbal interactions. Verbal language is defined as the use of sounds and language to communicate a message and thus accents, dialects, and languages all fall under this “verbal code.” Its counterpart, non-verbal language, is communication through a host of nonlinguistic methods, including physical appearance, kinesics, and olfactics.
Some examples of the supportive communication includes smiling, leaning towards the patient (proxemics), making eye contact, and using a warmer tone of voice when speaking. The unsupportive nonverbal communication included no eye contact, minimal facial expression, and a cold tone of voice. This shows that nonverbal communication is not only a very important aspect of communication in general, but contributes to the overall well being, or discomfort of others as
Despite how us humans are prone to communication, communication is a complex phenomena. That is why Personal and Scholarly concepts are made, to act as a guide, making communication easy. Personal theories are based on, one’s own observation about how they themself communicate. Scholarly theories and concepts are based on evidence and research. Though the fundamentals of personal and scholarly theory are different, they can often relate to each other. My two personal theories are related to non-verbal communication. While conversing, I have a tendency to avoid eye contact. I usually have to refrain myself from averting my eyes while conversing. My other non-verbal theory is about how I give different types of hugs, depending on the relationship
Found information states that “nonverbal communication is the process of transporting messages through behaviors, physical characteristics and objects”. Its how and what we use in order to express our feelings and say things. Using symbols is a way of using nonverbal communication. Also nonverbal communication is the way we use body language and gestures too. Nonverbal communication is often used unconsciously. When using the certain communication it can be misinterpreted also. There are many different categories of nonverbal communication. They are the following: Aesthetics, Artifacts, Chronemics, Haptics, Kinesics, Paralanguage, Physical Appearance, Proxemics, and Oculesics.
Communication is the simple “process of acting on information,” but communication is a lot more complex than that. Communication comes in varies categories and can be misunderstood if the message is not clear. Verbal and non-verbal communication is a great example where an issue can occur—if the source transmits a message that is not very well developed, then the receiver might interpret the message in a different context than originally intended. In my experience, verbal and non-verbal communication can be misinterpreted quite often. Texting is the most common abstract form of verbal communication—when someone responds with a single word like, “ok, or cool” to a very long text message, that
I learned a lot about Human Communication in this class when I read the chapter about Nonverbal Communication. Nonverbal Communication is the process of using messages that are not words to generate meaning. I learned that it happens every day. I also learned that is very hard to read or understand depending on the person you are speaking to or with. Verbal and Nonverbal codes work in conjunction with each other. The words we speak or say are used in conjunction six different ways: to repeat, to emphasize, to complement, to contradict, to substitute, and to regulate. I never knew until reading this chapter that we do these things all most every time we communicate. These are things I took for granted until now. I now know that I will pay
Teaching requires a strong relationship between the teacher and students. Nonverbal communication is vital, if underestimated, in building this trust. Nonverbal communication is “all those elements of a communication which are not essentially linguistic in nature” (Smith, 1979, p. 637). Some aspects of nonverbal communication include eye contact, facial expression, gestures, touch, proximity, posture, vocal qualities, and artifacts (Smith, 1979; Johnson 1999). These all interact with verbal communication and have many meaning that can be interpreted in a multitude of ways. As such, it is up to the teacher to be sure that their intentions are clear.