Kinesics

not to. We all are guilty of nonverbal communication, because even reading this essay shows that you are focused and do not want to be interrupted. One type of nonverbal communication that I find most noticeable and interesting is body movement or kinesics. Body movement has five roles that play in our relationships with ourselves. Those roles are: body orientation, posture, gesture, face and eyes. There is a lot in the book on nonverbal communication, which is why I chose to chop it down to…

Michael Robertson ANT 101 H006/H007 4/3/2016 Dr. Kaufmann Language can Change Reality A normal person, going a long living their day to day life may not stop to think that if they knew a completely different language, or no language at all, that their reality would be completely different. A thought I always had is, if someone did not know any language at all, were they able to logically think? The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis suggests, “Language is a force in its own right, that it affects how…

Defining Communication What is communication? According to the Merriam-Webster (n.d.) dictionary it is “information transmitted or conveyed.” Ten weeks ago I would have looked at this definition and believed that it was fairly accurate. However, since then I have learned that communication is so much more complicated than this definition reveals. There are different branches and modes of communication and an infinite number of factors that affect it. It may be transmitting information, but…

For my first “rule breaking” exercise, I used my family to experiment with breaking the phonological rule of verbal communication. I purposefully mispronounced names of places and objects while conversing with my mother, father, and brother. Each time I mispronounced something I was met by one of two different responses: amusement or annoyance. At first, my family members were amused when I seemed ignorant to the correct pronunciation, but as I broke the phonological rule more and more they…

language Body language is a kind of nonverbal communication, where thoughts, intentions, or feelings are expressed by physical behaviors, such as facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space. It is also known as kinesics. Problems in communication are often caused by the difference between the words and the body language. As the matter of fact we often believe body more than we…

who it was and why was he doing that, but I continued to listen. I listened to the vocalic of the conversation, I wanted to listen to his tone and the volume of his voice to determine whether it was a lady or a man. Also, I wanted to focus on his kinesics, I wanted to see how focused he was on the conversation and his gestures. So many things were running across my mind. His tone was seductive. I knew he wasn’t talking to a man then, he’s not gay. No man would sing to another man. The volume of…

Interpersonal communication is an exchange of information between two or more people. This can be achieved in many ways and many parts come into play when influencing communication. Many times individuals do not notice these different aspects that influence the way we communicate because they happen so often and so quickly. Movies are a great way to acknowledge these aspects because they are based on communication. In the movie Mean Girls, Cady Heron has lived in Africa her entire life with her…

Speech has been the most important and representative way in communication and we use it mainly in delivering facts and data. Speech was developed between 2 million and 500,000 years ago. After that, non-verbal communications were the main forms of conducting inner life of people including their emotions, moods, feelings and attitudes. Non-verbal communication / body language is the actions or attributes of humans, includes all the messages deliver in other way than words that we use in…