Paralanguage

The participant was recruited from Espoo town home care services the group of interviewees were workers of the health care system the process of recruitment was undertaken in targeted work place amount the workers Substantial efforts were made by the working life partner Integration staff members and myself during the re-cruitment campaign to ensure that the group would have enough participants to ensure the development a workable group dynamic. The minimum set number of participants was set at…

I chose speeches from the Harry Truman category. The first speech I listened to was Truman Threatens Japan with Atomic Attack (http://www.history.com/speeches/truman-threatens-japan-with-atomic-attacks) by Harry Truman. The second speech I listened to was U.S.-Soviet Tension Builds (http://www.history.com/speeches/us-soviet-tension-builds) given by Secretary of State James Byrnes. I believe that both of these speeches could be considered great speeches. They were both easy to follow and…

Seeking active conciseness is difficult, I even have trouble remaining conscious in class. Being one hundred percent invested in a conversation and trying to discern how things will affect another is like playing a chess game against a mastermind. Not only do you have to think about the other person feelings but, also how what you say will effect those feelings and perceptions. It is easy to revert to passiveness and letting conversation shift from individual personal self interest to another.…

Type of Listening: Listening to support or help others or Supportive Listening Definition and Discussion: In its smaller form or level it’s a way for Individuals to support others through a balanced formula of attentive, calm, connected and non-directive listening. For listeners, it’s a healthy way to support others without the draining or giving out of their own emotional balance the that can often go with supportive interactions or incidents. This type of listening allows those speaking to…

Communication is the process of creating, sending, receiving and interpreting messages between people (Adams & Galanes 2009, p. 55). For effective communication and group functioning, there needs to be consistency in the words and tone of the message and the non verbal body language; there needs to be a attention to listening and understanding what is being communicated, and asking questions if the message is not clear (UniSA 2015). It enables different viewpoints to be presented to the group…

Words can be twisted into any shape or form. They are a momentary promise that may never be fulfilled. Actions speak louder than words. We can apologise over and over, but if our actions don’t change, our words become meaningless. Words are not the only way in which humans can communicate. Kinesics Communication is the ‘study of the way in which certain body movements and gestures serve as a form of non-verbal communication’. Body language plays a very important role in the means of…

Communicating is an essential component to human life, without conversations life would be full of unknowns. Some conversations are awkward, others are tense, and some are full of happiness and commitment. During “But What Do You Mean” by Deborah Tannen, the author approaches the subject of why men and women have trouble with conversing in the workplace. Tannen uses seven different categories to classify communication problems between men and women that not only apply in the workplace but as…

1) My favorite scholarly definition of communication is, "any act by which one person gives to or receives from another person information about that person's needs, desires, perceptions, knowledge, or affective states. Communication may be intentional or unintentional, may involve conventional or unconventional signals, may take linguistic or nonlinguistic forms, and may occur through spoken or other modes,” by Julia Scherba de Valenzuela. 2) Communication is the interaction between two or…

Nonverbal communications are important because they add a sense of trust and interest to conversations. Nonverbal communications help the speaker as they provide a complement to what he/she is saying. The body communicates nonverbally with the gestures and movements that the speaker does. Kinesics includes emblems, affect displays, illustrators, regulators, and adaptors. Emblems are body gestures that translate into words or phrases that the speaker would use verbally. When using emblems, people…

Communication is one of the basic keys of survival. Without communication, ideas and important information are lost and sometimes never found. “Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble” – Yehuda Berg. Taking a look at literature it is…