[CS202] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 23 pages long Study Guide!
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Verbal communication gains a large part of its meaning from nonverbal cues. Although we may encode a sign nonverbally, its decoding is often done linguistically . What this mean is that many nonverbal cues are signs that carry representational meaning. As such, they are also verbal or have a signifying. Intrinsic = where the sign is the things itself (pointing, smiling) Iconic = resembles the thing its referring to (apple on mac, photograph, making hand look like a gun: arbitrary = no relationship between sign and what it relates to in the world (ex. The word cat doesn"t look like a cat) all words are arbitrary. Left brain = rational, sequential, linguistic, reflective, self aware. The divide between left and right brain is not absolute. Both verbal and nonverbal communication use both sides to varying degrees. Nvc exist on a continuum between rational and intuited. It is impossible to completely separate the verbal from the nonverbal.
