Language And Social Interaction

Communication is the act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else. Language is symbols that can be combined in an infinite number of ways for the purpose of communicating abstract thought.(Henslin 43) Language is a very important aspect in life, it is the method we use to interact with people. Social interaction is one person 's actions influencing someone else; usually refers to what people do when they are in one another 's presence, but also includes communications at a distance.(Henslin 92) The way we interact changes depending on who we are communicating with, for example, when you talk to a baby the tone of your …show more content…
Before I even started interacting with them using gestures and sign language I could see that they knew something was wrong simply by my behavior as I am usually a vocal person around my friends and am rarely ever not speaking. Their reactions weren 't anything out of the ordinary at first they would look at me out of the corner of their eye thinking that I couldn 't see then it eventually progressed into someone asking me if I was alright or feeling sick. As I started trying harder to show them that I was trying to talk to them without actually speaking I could see them trying to comprehend what I was doing with my hands to see if they could understand. When I first noticed that they were still not getting it I had paused the movie we were watching on the man with the angry face and then pointed to it and then they finally understood. One of my friends who I guess you could say is fluent in sign language proceeded to ask me things using that method of communication. Meanwhile everybody else looked severely confused about what was occurring around them. Eventually after using more gestures they all slowly caught on to what I was telling them which was that I was upset with my friend because of something he had done. After I was done with the thirty minutes of no communicating verbally or in a written manner I found out that a parental figure was watching the entire exchange between my friends and I. When I asked them whether they could tell what was wrong and how long it took them to figure it out they had said that it took them no more than ten minutes to understand that I was upset and whom that emotion was being directed towards. When I proceeded to ask how they figured it out they had told me that one of their kids was a late learner and did not learn to speak at the same age