CMN 1148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nonverbal Communication, Social Penetration Theory, Social Capital

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1148
• Professor: Sherry Ferguson

Document Summary

We can deine nonverbal communicaion as communicaion that does not involve language . Nonverbal: verbal: one-to-on correspondence exists between two sets of symbols carries 7% emoional content of message, nonverbal: Replacing or subsituing for verbal messages (emblems: nonverbal cues that replace verbal with nonverbal message, culture and context-bound. Ex: cross culture: ok emblem: good (north america) / money (japan) Complemening, repeaing and accening verbal messages (illustrators: illustrators complement, repeat, or add emphasis to verbal messages. Ex: smiling warmly when say ily : illustrators have no meaning on their own: they get their meaning from the accompanying words and the context, illustrators difer from replacing or subsituing funcion because they accompany words. Regulaing interacion (regulators: nonverbal cues that control and manage the low of communicaion between people. Ex: raising hand to say wait unil i inish: regulators perform a subsituing funcion, they take the place of spoken request or demands.