COMM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kinesics, The Human Face, Eye Contact
29 Mar 2017
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The use of objects, action, sounds, time, and space to convey meaning. 65% of meaning is conveyed by nonverbal communication. Vocal: sighs, groans, our changes in pitch and tone. Non-vocal: facial expressions, our movements, our gestures. Substitutes: you can answer a question without having to use verbal communication. Paralanguage: it"s not what you say, it"s how you say. Emphasis can change the entire meaning of a phrase. Objectics: artifacts, things that we have around us that we use to communicate something about us. Proxemics: we use space, distance, and territory to communicate. Professors get lots of space in lecture halls, this emphasizes that they are what we need to focus on. Orientation: how we are structured, positioning ourselves next to people. We touch to show emotion; sexual, playful, etc signals affiliation and relationships. The area of study of how physical contact with people affects us. * the human face communicates more emotion than anything else.
