Language contact

expressions that are fine in one culture may be offensive, meaningless, or carry a different meaning in another culture (Ting-Toomey 276). Examples of nonverbal communication include facial expressions, hand and arm gestures, head movements, eye contact, physical space, physical postures, and touching among others. To the Americans, a smile is a way of expressing friendliness or being comfortable with a person or an idea. As such, Americans freely smile with strangers. On the contrary, smiling…

For my fieldwork project, I visited a local park to observe the people there and how they communicated. At the park, there was a large, grassy field, a playground, and a few picnic tables. During my time at the park, I made many detailed notes on what kinds of non-verbal communication took place. It was a nice, breezy day, and many families were having picnics. This was the perfect opportunity to watch some interesting interactions, so I sat on a bench and observed. One family was having a…

a) Nonverbal communication is a powerful way of communicating and it comes naturally. It is defined as wordless messages that are received and sent from others on a conscious and subconscious level and this can be both intentional and unintentional (P.S, 2008).This essay will discuss how nonverbal communication strategies can enhance communication with committee members. The first strategy will be enhancing communication through facial expression which is a form of kinesics. The face…

did not need to read from the power point, nor did I make many vocal interferences to stop to think what to say. I also made a lot of eye contact with the audience. By making good eye contact with the audience, I was able to better connect with them and make it more personal. One can be more credible by building a person’s trust. Therefore by making the eye contact with them and being sincere…

1. Body Language Body language is the process of communicating nonverbally through conscious or unconscious gestures and movements, or the simple definition is communicating without words. It’s important because it has a lot of functions, examples: - To express our feelings about what are we discussing. Body language can help us determine how someone feels about what they are saying. - You can now when someone is lying to you. - To understand how we come across to other people and be able to…

have speech or voice recognition feature called “Siri” on its product, the application uses natural language user interface to perform action, make a recommendations, and answer questions by interpreting the commands into a set of Web services, it was firstly introduced as hands free navigator for cars like Ford and Honda, it was intended to make hands…

Geoffrey Chaucer and Giovanni Boccaccio both use frame stories to get a message across through their writing. Money is the root of all evil is a theme seen in “The Pardoner’s Tale” by Chaucer, and people make great sacrifices for the ones they love is a theme in “Federigo’s Falcon” by Boccaccio. These two selections contrast with each other because the theme in “The Pardoner’s Tale” shows that people act selfishly out of greed while the theme of “Federigo’s Falcon” shows that people act…

First of all we have to think of the Canterbury Tales in a certain context, these stories are being told in the passage of a Pilgrimage to Canterbury. We see that these characters all live in the same world interacting with one another, but they all have different points of view in several topics. “The pilgrims are represented as affected by a variety of destructive and restorative kinds of love. Their characters and movement can be fully described only as mixtures of the loves that drive and…

Taidam language. Even though they can speak in sentences and are capable of holding conversations with relatives, they aren’t able to say every word or phrase (Baccam). Kham’s oldest daughter, JoJo, states, “Being the oldest, I know how to speak and I understand more than my younger siblings, but since I didn’t grow up in the Taidam Village or strictly speak Taidam in the household,…

Anzaldua grew up in southwest texas, borderland between America and Mexico. As a result, she experienced all aspects of a contact zone. From being part of the dominant discourse to being looked at as the other. Having grown up between two cultures, Gloria is able to bounce back and forth from one language to another. She shows this bilinguality throughout her essay jumping back and forth between english and spanish. She states,” Es una falta de respeto to talk…