Proxemics

I will be talking about what kind of nonverbal communication challenges I find in my communication experience. I will also discuss the challenges. I will be telling how I plan on improving these behaviors and tendencies. I will explain how I experience these challenges. I picked eye-contact, tone of voice, and facial expressions. I wanted to explain how I can changes these three challenges that I picked. When it comes down to eye-contact, tone of voice, and facial expressions I barely do not do…

Communication is a key aspect to our survival on this planet. If we didn’t communicate, we wouldn’t be able to do much in any aspects of our lives. We use verbal communication to actually say what we mean, but we also use nonverbal communication. That is like body language, facial expression, gestures and eye contact. When someone is talking to you, you should make sure you are analyzing all of these and also listening to what they are saying. In this paper I compare the United States vs…

The author of this passage tries to tell you and makes the readers become aware of how Arabians and Americans think differently about spatial relationships. Here, he talks about proxemics which is used to compare the Arabian and American cultures giving some examples. Throughout the passage, the author makes the readers become curious about how the two cultures are different and what we need to be aware of. In the last paragraph, the author clearly structures the essay by providing the factual…

maintains between itself and others” (Hall 1996: p112). In the book ‘The Silent Language’, Hall proposed that while animals use their urine and physical posturing to mark their territory, humans do something similar using our personal space. The proxemics theory suggests that the distance between individuals help to control the amount of sensory information exchanged and thus, helping to control the level of intimacy. Individual personal space is influences by many situational as well as…

people. Touching can be of two kinds: positive touching is a playful touch that indicates different kinds of relationships, while control touching indicates the different types of aggression. (Schmitz 2012, 203-205) Proxemics: The study of how people use their personal space is called proxemics. The anthropologist Edward T. Hall has defined four types of zones in which communication occurs, these are: • Intimate space area starts from the surface of the skin up to a distance of 45 cm. This…

For example, Western man sees the space as objectives, which are fixed; however, Eestern man sees the space as subjectives that are semi-fixed. These ideas of space with the term proxemics, takes more associations and get hidden behind of the visual to a much profounder sensual space (p. 94). In the perception of space and man, the author deals with the similar informations but from a dissimilar perspective of view comparing with the…

where Diane works. Lloyd lives with his sister and her son, both his mother and father are in the army. In the movie, Say Anything, there are three conspicuous topics that show up, Individualism vs. Collectivism, Interpersonal Needs Theory, and proxemics. Individualism differs from Collectivism in many ways. Individualism says that culture emphasizes personal rights and responsibility, whereas Collectivism emphasizes more collaboration, shared interest, and public goodness (Flottemesch 2017).…

Scene Summary Adaline Bowman, who is played by the actress Blake Lively, is involved in an accident where her car plunges into a freezing lake. Although Adaline dies after drowning in the frigid water, she is brought back to life by a lightning strike. This strange combination of events causes her to miraculously remain twenty-nine years old for nearly eight decades. She assumes a new identity by changing her name to Jenny, and from that point on, she never allows herself to get close to…

us that these things belong to him. That was a very embarrassing situation for me and I apologized to the individual because of this misunderstanding and moved to the next empty table in the restaurant. Referring back to the textbook, considering proxemics I would be in the intimate space with his belongings, personal space with my friend and in social space of the stranger who’s seat I took.…

The main idea of this post is how personal space varies from person to person. Everyone has a specific amount of space they choose to have around certain people. In this post, we get to realize the way people from other countries see our own culture. According to this post, people from Puerto Rico are a lot more comfortable around other people than we Americans are. “Puerto Rico paisanos keep a close distance when talking to each other.” Serafin Roldan-Santiago states this within the post,…