Proxemics

Nonverbal behaviors greatly contribute to the meaning, credibility, and persuasive impact of a speaker’s message. Over the period of a week, I observed the nonverbal behaviors signaling trustworthiness of my friends, my husband and many other family members. I received a phone call at work this week that no one wants to receive. My sister, Brenda, was on the phone and told me that my step-mom could not wake up my Dad. As I cried and spoke to her, several co-workers came over to my desk, as…

The famous Australian play “The One Day of the Year” by Alan Seymour explores various conflicts over ANZAC Day in the 1950’s in a working class family from Sydney’s Western suburbs. Since then, opinions on gender roles and cultural diversity in Australia have changed and so have ideas about Australia in general. This is also closely examined in Ellen Connolly’s article ‘Burquini Hits the Beach’, written for the Sunday Telegraph on February 4th 2007. The text reveals a plan by Surf Lifesaving…

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Discoveries help us interpret our world; They can offer insight into the human condition that in turn helps us to interpret concepts like isolation in our world. Isolation seemingly defines the character’s lives in the poems 'The Tuft of Flowers' and ‘Home Burial’ from Robert Frost’s ‘The Collected Poems’ and Sean Penn's film 'Into the Wild'. More importantly, it is through the way they overcome their isolation or lack, thereof, that we discover the importance of human…

in his film, but other elements of mise-en-scene is also skillfully. He does a fascinating job with the fighting scene. In the beginning of the scene where a woman and two men are conversing a scheme in a closet, Kurosawa establishes character proxemics. The characters show intimacy because of how close they are together as well as relationship with one another. The blocking of the wall from the left and right create a narrow and tight visual closet. This small space forces the character to…

Introduction: Is interaction important? – talk more about social interaction today and how it’s really changed. And how we are more connected than ever today and yet macrosocial interaction seems to be struggling. Humans are an expressive species. ‘Communication is one of those everyday activities that is intertwined with all of human life so completely that we sometimes overlook its pervasiveness, importance, and complexity.’ ( (Littlejohn & Foss, 2010) It is a key part of social interaction…

This view is limiting as ‘people in interaction draw on a multiplicity of communicative modes’ (Norris 2004: 2). In this paragraph, I will focus on proxemics and kinesics. Proxemics considers our communicative use of space. It involves physical distance, body angle, forward leaning (Finnegan 2002). When we communicate visually, we use the whole of our body. Think, for instance, of foot tapping expressing impatience…

segregation in a community. Still images if when you perform 3 images ( in this case with speech ) to communicate a story. In our still images we used proxemics and facial expression to portray our feelings. Our first still image was on a bus of the bus and white sitting at the front of the bus. The separation between the races highlights the proxemics portraying separation in the community . In the middle scene it show how one of the white people try to accept the black, however both other…

What comes to mind when you hear the word violate? By definition, the term violate means to treat (something sacred) with irreverence or disrespect, to fail to respect (someone's peace, privacy, or rights) and to break or fail to comply with (a rule or formal agreement). Violation is a term that often carries a negative connotation. However, what most people do not account for is a positive violation. Another way Expectancy Violations Theory is flawed is that it often does not assume that a…

communication is usually understood as the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless messages. Non-verbal communication includes Kinesics (face and body motion), Haptics (touch), Physical appearance, Artifacts (personal objects), Proxemics (personal space), Environmental factors, Chronemics (perception and use of time), Paralanguage (vocal qualities), Silence. (Wood, J, 2015) Some say that non-verbal communication…

1. Title of the film: Slumdog Millionaire (2008) dir. Danny Boyle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDC47NsoRE0 2. Description of the context and staging of the scene: After years of separation, the Indian teen Jamal Malik wants to free his beloved Latika, who has become a rich’s slave, and waits for her everyday at the train station. One day, she escapes and looks for him at the meeting point. The place is crowded. He is leaning on the handrail of the second floor, whereas she is standing on the…