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Nonverbal
Nonverbal
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Verbal Nonverbal
Communication Communication
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The Nature of Nonverbal
Communication
• Affective
• Ambiguous
• Continuous
• Multi-channeled
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Functions of Nonverbal
Communication
• Substitute
Verbal
• Complement Communication
• Contradict
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Nonverbal
Communication
• Facial expression and eye contact
• Kinesics (body motion)
• Proxemics and personal space
• Artifacts
• Touch (haptics)
t hiinngg
• Paralanguage
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When nonverbal
and verbal
contradict, we
tend to accept
the nonverbal
inference.
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Uses of Body Motion
• Emblems
• Illustrators
• Affect display
• Regulators
• Adaptors
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Emblems
• Nonverbal
gestures that take
the place of a
word or phrase
Microsoft Photo
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Illustrators
Nonverbal gestures that complement
what a speaker is saying
Microsoft Photo
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Affect Displays
• Facial
expressions and
gestures that
augment the
verbal expression
of feelings
Microsoft Photo
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Regulators
Facial expressions or gestures that
are used to control or regulate the
flow of a conversation
Microsoft Photo
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Adaptors
• Body motions
that are used to
relieve tension
Microsoft Photo
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Facial expression is the
strongest nonverbal
communicator
Of the face the eye
communicates more than
any other feature.
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Eye Contact
The majority of people
in the United States
and other Western
cultures expect
people to look them in
Microsoft Photo the eye when
communicating.
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Eye Contact
• Japanese direct their
gaze to a position around
the Adam’s apple.
• Chinese, Indonesians,
and Mexicans lower their
eyes as a sign of
deference.
Microsoft Photo
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Paralanguage
Vocal communication minus the words
• Pitch
• Volume
• Rate
• Quality
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Touch
• Touching and
being touched are
essential to a
healthy life
• Touch can
communicate
power, empathy,
understanding
Microsoft Photo
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Self-Presentation
• What message do
you wish to send
with your choice
of clothing and
Microsoft Photo personal
grooming?
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Time
• How do we
manage and react
to others’
management of
time
– duration
– activity
– punctuality
Microsoft Photo
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Polychronic and monochronic
variations of time exist within
cultures. Should we ask
polychronics to conform in the
workplace?
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Proxemics - how we use the
space around us - our environment
• Intimate distance, up to 18”, is appropriate
for private conversations between close
friends.
• Personal distance, from 18”- 4’, is the space
in which casual conversation occurs.
• Social distance, from 4’ – 12’, is where
impersonal business such as job interviews
is conducted.
• Public distance is anything more than 12’
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Personal Space at Work
• Your office
• Your desk
• A table in the cafeteria
that you sit at
regularly
Microsoft Photo
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Color Influences
Communication
Yellow cheers Red excites Blue comforts
and and and
elevates moods stimulates soothes
In some In some
cultures cultures
black suggests white suggests
mourning purity
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Nonverbal Signals
Vary from culture to
culture
Microsoft Photo
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What does this symbol
mean to you?
• In the United States it is a
symbol for good job
• In Germany the number
one
• In Japan the number five
• In Ghana an insult
• In Malaysia the thumb is
used to point rather than a
finger
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To improve our
communication . . .
We need to monitor our own nonverbal
communication and exercise care in
interpreting that of others.
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