CMST 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kinesics, Chronemics, Teleology
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Sci: guided by natural law, has to be explanatory by ref. to nat. law, testable against empirical world, conclusions are tentative. It is falsifiable: nat. sci. depends on a standardization of being method, i. e. it aims at being objective (you do things in a certain way, replications of studies same results, scientific philosophical position: the world has form and structure independent of differences between individual observers , humanistic, associated with subjectivity , focus on indiv. Worlds: doesn"t separate knower and known, h. & nat. sci. not entirely separate, social sciences, an extension of the nat. sci"s, humans as object of study, uses objective methods. Any symbolic activity that communicates a message other than words. : significance of nyv: it has 4. 3 times more influence than spoken words, nvc is always present in face to face communication meaning, nvc is guided by rules, what came first was nonverbal communication, nvc frames talk and assists determining meaning, non verbal"s frame our understanding.
