Chapter 4 - Nonverbal Communication PDF

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Chapter 4 - Nonverbal Communication Nonverbal communication conveys important interpersonal and emotional messages Involuntary Ambiguous Credible Functions of Nonverbal Comm Confirms our verbal Contradicts - sarcasm Complements - Incomplete messages Conveys Meaning - Reinforcing - Substituting ● Nonverbal takes place of verbal ○ Waving, flipping someone off, gifts, hugs, kisses, pats on the back - Contradicting - Complementing Influences Other People - Smiling at someone and they smile back - RBF Regulates Conversation Flow - Know when to start/stop talking Affects Relationships - Holding hands - Kiss - Hug - Arms around each other - Proximity - PDA Expresses Our Identities - How we dress, how we stand, how we act Types of Nonverbal Comm - Gestures ● Adaptors ○ Comforting ○ Nonverbal gestures that convey nervousness ● Emblems ○ Have an agreed upon meaning ○ Substitute verbal comm ○ Varies by culture ● Illustrators ○ “Phone call” “typing a keyboard” “guitar playing”

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Head movements and Posture ● Standing up straight, shoulders back Eye Contact ● Paying attention, serious, respect, ● Regulate interaction ● Monitor nonverbal communication from others ● Signal cognitive activity ● Expres engagement ● Flirt

4.2.1 Facial Expressions Expressing our emotions Consistent throughout cultures - Haptics ● functional/ professsional ● social/polite ● friendship/warmth ● love /intimacy ● Sexual arousal ● Control ● Violence ● Celebration - Vocalics ● Personality expresses largely through our voice - Proxemics ● We are most uncomfortable when someone enters our personal space - Territoriality - Chronemics ● Culturally influenced/ bound - Personal Presentation and Environment ● What we do or don’t do with our hair ● How we choose to present ourselves is largely nonverbal ● You don’t tell people you’re confident/happy, you express it nonverbally ● The goal was to make sure that this ermainds a white mans country we jsut...