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Nonverbal Communication
More about nonverbal communication:
Definition of nonverbal communication: Nonverbal communication
is the process by which nonverbal behaviors are used, either
singly or in combination with verbal behaviors, in the exchange
and interpretation of messages within a given situation or
context.
Classes of Nonverbal Communication
1. Facial expression and eye behavior
2. Body movement and gestures
3. Touching behavior
4. Voice characteristics and qualities
5. Culture and time
6. Environment
7. Body types, shapes, and sizes
8. Clothing and personal artifacts.
Functions of Nonverbal Communication
1. Complementing: adding extra information to the verbal message
2. Contradicting: when our nonverbal messages contradict our
verbal messages
3. Repeating: used in order to emphasize or clarify the verbal
message
4. Regulating: serves to coordinate the verbal dialogue between
people
5. Substituting: occurs when a nonverbal message is transmitted
in place of a verbal message
6. Accenting: emphasizing a particular point in a verbal message
Language notes:
1.
Alan seems relaxed and even-tempered.
Even-tempered: not excitable.
2. If
you were Cher, you could show up to make an Academy Award
presentation speech wearing a bizarre creation that had more
headdress than dress.
Cher（1946─）, Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere, American actress,
won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Moonstruck.
3.
Both presidents would soon be looking for work.
Be looking for work: lose their job
and have to look for a new one.
4.
Although the force of your speech can sometimes overcome a
poor impression created by personal appearance, the odds are
against it.
Odds: the probability that one thing is so or will happen
rather than another; chances.
5.
As you rise to speak, try to appear calm, poised, and confident,
despite the butterflies in your stomach.
Butterfly in the stomach: (pl) a feeling of hollowness or queasiness
caused esp. by emotional or nervous tension or anxious anticipation.
6. This
will give your closing line time to sink in.
Sink in: be completely understood; be fully realized
or felt.
e.g. When he heard that war had started, it didn't sink in
for a long time until his father was drafted into the army.
7.
The quickest way to establish a communicative bond with your
listeners is to look them in the eye, personally and pleasantly.
Look sb/sth in the eye: look boldly and steadily at (a person,
danger, an opponent, enemy, etc).
e.g. He is a person of high principles, who can look anyone
straight in the eye.
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Your Actions Speak Louder
About the article:
The author works with the Peace Corps and has a good knowledge
of the nonverbal communication. He proves that ignorance of
the meanings of gestures in different cultures will bring
one into embarrassing, or even disastrous situations. He identifies
five nonverbal channels: kinesic, proxemic, chronemic, oculesic,
and haptic. These five channels of nonverbal communication
exist in every culture. He calls for people to be aware of
this important field in cross-cultural communication.
Language notes:
1.
Peace Corps:
A federal government organization, set up
in 1961, that trains and sends American volunteers abroad
to work with people of developing countries on projects for
technological, agricultural, and educational improvement.
2.
A volunteer in Nigeria has great trouble getting any discipline
in his class,
Getting any discipline in his class:
Getting any control of his class.
3.
In the second case, the volunteer insisted that students look
him in the eye to show attentiveness,
Note that after the word "insisted" the that-clause is in
the subjunctive mood.
4.
We assume that our way of talking and gesturing is "natural"
and that those who do things differently are somehow playing
with nature.
Play with: trifle with.
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