COM 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nonverbal Communication, Social Distance, Proxemics
5 Jul 2016
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Microexpressions a fraction-of-a-second expression that you don"t know that you"re putting on that reveal what you"re really feeling. The seven universal facial expressions: happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, contempt, disgust. Nonverbal behaviour has communicative value: it"s a message that"s expressed by non-linguistic means, the process of intentionally or unintentionally signalling meaning through behaviour. Alonso 2: making sense of ambiguous behaviour involves: History of the relationship how long you"ve known each other. Influences on nonverbal communication: culture: cultures have different nonverbal languages. Nonverbal comm: creates immediacy, or closeness, with another. Eye contact, smiling, appropriate touching, mimicry: deceives others to believe something that is false. Paralanguage: vocalised sounds that accompany words, which includes variations in pitch, tone and volume; pauses; vocal quality; rhythm, and rate. Cues that include um, uh, like (which expresses unintentionally to the listener that the speaker doesn"t know what they"re talking about: physical appearance. Artefacts (accessories) matter tattoos, piercings, clothing/jewellery. Studying types of nonverbal codes: kinetics body movement.
