CMS 315M Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nonverbal Communication
20 Mar 2017
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You cannot not communicate: tone, car, clothes, visual appearance, reputation, demeanor, position, body language. Meanings are in people: any word can have more than one meaning, not in words labels: words that have deep meanings to us, ex. Married , single , god , love all mean different things to different people cultural/societal differences: not in behavior punctuation, john said, mary, go home. , john , said mary, go home. changes meaning. Communication is irreversible: ex. can"t go back after a relationship starts, moves forward, why we feel relationships move to fast. Communication is both intentional and unintentional: effective communication when intentions match, intentional/intentional, and unintentional/unintentional. Communication is contextual: physical context, ex. nice dinner you go to a nice restaurant , this shapes the context, ex. candles lit romantic/calming environment, psychological context, ex.
