Proxemics

communicate without using words. It 's our facial expressions, body postures, eye contacts and hand gestures. An example is everyone uses body language in different ways while we communicate. The types of nonverbal communication is socialized with proxemics, oculesics, and posture. The location I choose to perform my violation of a cultural norm was in the cafeteria. I used the cafeteria that is in the Gordon Student Center. After trying to decide which cultural norm to experiment with, I…

Throughout our performance, we used the technique ‘body as prop’ successfully to convey the structure of two of the three little pig’s houses. There was a contrast in the two houses due to the differentiated shape and tension. To convey the building of the house, synchronised movement was used to show the shape develop. To show that I was acting as my character my face was in neutral; this showed the audience the diversity between my character and the usage of body prop. I also feel that we…

not like or expect. First of all, Burgoon was influenced by scholar, Stuart Hall. Hall believed that spatial expectations is the key to getting people to like you. Hall came up with the idea of proxemics which studies personal space, which Burgoon studies a lot for the expectancy violation theory. Proxemics is heavily influenced by culture. It might be the norm is some cultures to be in close spatial distance to a strangers and in other cultures this could be against the norm. According…

one’s job has been eliminated and then asked to train one’s replacement in another country. Adjusting to the social episodes of another culture would be a difficult challenge, especially if one has never traveled outside of the United States. The proxemics can be defined in as one’s personal space and are cultural-specific. In the movie, one example of this was displayed when the young boy sat on Todd’s lap on the train ride, after the boy gave up his seat. The intercultural communication was…

Regina turns to Gretchen and makes her move to a different spot which seems like a ploy to show Gretchen that Cady is her new favorite. In this scene, proxemics is used as a way to illustrate your position in the social hierarchy. In this case, the space between Gretchen and Regina was implicitly telling her that Regina was displacing her. In LDCAT, proxemics is used similarly as a way of creating a disparity between social groups based on social standing. In this particular movie, hallways and…

In many cultures healthcare is approached in many different ways. In America we may go to general doctors, specialist, or even Emergency personnel however there are many types of physicians or healthcare workers around the world. In the rural areas of China there are the barefoot doctors or a land between two rivers where people turn to sheep for help; whereas Greeks develop modern day neurological surgeries. As there is so much diversity in the types of doctors around the world, every person is…

Mother and daughter relationships can be very complicated. It seems like the older your daughter gets, the larger the distance between mother and daughter grow. This gap may lead to tension, arguing, or just a feeling of uneasiness between both persons. It may be the age gap, the change in generation, or simply some unknown factor. Some mothers try to bridge the gap and gain a closer relationship with their daughters when they reach adulthood. It isn’t written in stop when adulthood comes, but…

communication is called nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication is all of the ways we interact with others without saying a single word. It is comprised of a series of nonverbal codes. These codes consist of paralanguage, chronemics and proxemics, and physical appearance and object language. In order to observe these nonverbal codes in the real world, my group and I went to Moe’s Southwest Grill, a casual dining Tex-Mex restaurant. While there, I took note of the various uses of…

variation of amused and confused when I broke the semantic rule. Contrastingly, within communication contexts where I experimented with breaking nonverbal rules, I was met with confusion, annoyance, distrust, but no amusement. When I experimented with proxemics, and violated the spatial zones with a stranger, they became irritated and uncomfortable. And when I used the nonverbal channel of facial displays to send contradicting messages, I received responses of distrust and confusion. By this…

to explore the topic of the importance of communication in relation to quality of life, this paper discusses fierce conversations, feedback, and connectivity from Fierce Conversations, in addition to, genuine dialogue, shame, withdrawal, culture, proxemics, letting the other happen to me, and nexting from Bridges Not Walls. These concepts are all necessary to understand so that communicators can get the most out of their conversations which have the power to positively…