Paralanguage

Nonverbal communication is very important in conversations between people. It is also very problematic, what can be observed by every person individually, when received message was misunderstood or taken not as the sender wanted it to be decoded. However, if nonverbal conversation is such a problem in regular contact between people, it can be assumed that intercultural communication may be even more problematic. Stella Ting-Toomey (1999: 114) in her book wrote that nonverbal communication in…

Connotative meaning is the non-literal and associative meaning that a word or phrase has in addition to its central meaning. This part of meaning shows people's emotions and attitudes towards what the word or phrase refers to. For example, the denotative meaning of the word "child" could be as 'a young human being', but it can be associated with, e.g. affectionate, amusing, lovable, sweet, and grubby (Richards and Schmidt, 2010: 118).…

.4 Basics of Gestures Gesture is the use of nonverbal communication in between the humans or to any other creatures. This kind of communication uses different part of the body such as hand, head, the lips and etc. Those body parts are used to convey messages nonverbally. Basically, for gesture recognitions that are used in the digital world, it can be categorized into three different areas which are voice gesture recognition, facial gesture recognition and hand gesture recognition. 2.4.1 Voice…

Mendez, Jessica Lang. Arts, Per. 3 10.27.17 Keep Your Eyes Closed "Just keep your eyes closed." Somehow, while doing my sister Melanie's eye makeup, the eyeshadow missed her eyelid and made it into her eye. We don't usually wear makeup, but we had been invited to Mr. and Mrs. Swedel's Halloween Gala, which was a very formal event. It was extremely strenuous to be invited to. Mom insisted w e looked our best, and in Melanie's case would be quite difficult considering her costume was a bright…

Last week, I attend Grace College chapel. In order further my communication skills I analyzed the audience and speaker at this chapel. Caleb Yoder was speaking. The first thing I analyzed was the demographic factors of the audience. Chapel is made up college students typically from the age seventeen to twenty-four. The school is made up of about sixty-five percent female and thirty-five male. Grace College is a christian school that has its roots in the Grace Brethren denomination; however, the…

There are many elements that make up customer service, one of many of them being service culture. Service culture is the values, beliefs, norms, rituals and practices of a group or organization. As a child care director, my service culture would consist of policies that are family and children friendly. Such as creating a schedule that fits traditional and nontraditional parent’s work schedules. My childcare facility will be perceived as being very family oriented and my employees and consumers…

Essentially, the positive aspect of the increasing use of technology is its ability to let people connect with those who are not physically close. While many argue that people are disconnecting with those physically close to them in order to connect with those geographically far, the fact remains that people are still using technology to connect. Connection is still happening. Despite the connection argued by Koifman, the “effects of tech on relationships say that the cons of tech don’t outweigh…

Finding a gift or a piece of clothing that is not what was expected or unappealing can be disappointing and can cause distractions on insubstantial stuff. Do I have to keep this? Can I get rid of this? Will everyone be looking at me when I have this with me? Do I have a choice? In Gary Soto’s “The Jacket” the young man receives a jacket he dislikes greatly and does not appeal to his wants. In addition, Soto uses literary elements, symbols and figurative language to influence the overarching…

Communication is complete and perfect when the receiver understands the message in the same sense and spirit as the communicator intends to convey, here idea, and information reached to and responded by receiver remain unaltered and distorted. But practically it has been noticed that such perfect and complete communication does not take place because of certain obstacles or other factors known as “Communication barriers”, there are a lot of causes of misunderstanding and misrepresentations of…

Rationale Individuals have different preference for the use of the hand. These hand preferences are right-handedness, left-handedness and ambidextrous which is the ability to do use the both hands in doing different tasks. The handedness of a person can be determined if the specific hand can do the task comfortably in situations like writing and throwing. The right-handedness of the people has approximately 85% in the society (Porac, 2016). Statistically, the right-handed are more dominant and…