6 - Nonverbal Communication PDF

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Nonverbal communication: the use of objects, action, sounds, time, and space to convey meaning

-Accounts for about 65% of meaning in communication ●

Types of nonverbal

-Vocal: sighs, noises, tone, etc. -Nonvocal: facial expressions, movements, gestures ●

Nonverbal communication… verbal communication

-Complements -Regulates -Substitutes for -Contradicts -Illustrates ●

Methods of nonverbal

-Paralanguage: not what you say, but how you say it -Objectics: how certain objects can give off certain messages (clothes you wear for a job interview, jewelry -Proxemics: spacing (between people, allocated to people) -Orientation: how we are structured in a conversation/setting (open/closed form, etc.) -Haptics: physical contact (show emotions, control, ritual, sexual, playful, accidental, instrumental) -Kinesics: facial expressions (smiling, frowning, etc.), body movement & gestures (thumbs up, posture, etc.) 1. Emblems: gestures that can substitute words 2. Illustrators: gestures that illustrate what you are saying 3. Regulators: gestures that pace conversation 4. Adaptors: signs that show how you feel 5. Affect Displays: things that display emotion -Oculesics: eye contact (listening, attraction, dominance, etc.) -Chronemics: the use of time (how long you wait to text someone, being early/late,...