NONVERBAL
MESSAGES
FUNCTIONS OF NONVERBAL COMM.
1. Forming and Managing Impressions
2. Emotional Expression
3. Structuring conversation and Social
interaction
4. Influence and Deception
5. Forming and Defining Relationships
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CHANNEL OF NONVERBAL MESSAGES
1.
Body Messages
2.
Facial & Eye Movements
3.
Spatial & Territorial Communication
4.
Artifactual Communication
5.
Touch Communication
6.
Paralanguage & Silence
7.
Time Communication
1. Body Messages:5 types of body movements :-
Process where you regulate your
own body movement & gestures to
comm. desired meanings
1.
Emblems – body gestures that directly translate words
2.
Illustrators – non verbal behaviors literally illustrate
verbal messages
3.
Affect displays – communicate emotional meaning
(movement of the face)
4.
Regulators – behaviors that monitor, control,
coordinate the speaking of others
1. Body Messages:5.
Adaptors – nonverbal behaviors that are emitted
without conscious awareness
Self-adaptor – self touching movement
Alter adaptors – movement directed at the
person with whom you are speaking
Object adaptors – gestures focuses on
objects
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1. Body Messages:Body Appearance – general body appearance
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Height & weight
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Hair length, color and style
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General attractiveness
2. Facial & Eye Movement
a) Facial Communication
communicates the degree of pleasantness,
agreement and sympathy felt
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2. Facial & Eye Movement
Facial Management Techniques
- Techniques use to hide or emphasize emotions to others
1.
Intensifying to exaggerate a feeling
2.
Deintensifying to underplay a feeling
3.
Neutralizing to hide a feeling
4.
Masking to replace the expression of one
emotion for another
2. Facial & Eye Movement
b) Eye Communication
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the eye are regarded as the most
important nonverbal messages
system
Functions of eye movement:1.
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To seek feedback
To signal the openness in comm. channel
To signal the nature of a relationship
To change the psychological distance
To help others maintain privacy
To signal lack of interest
3. Spatial & Territorial Communication
Spatial distances:the way in which you treat (use) a space
1. Intimate – touching to 18 inches
2. Personal – 18 inches to 4 feet
3. Social – 4feet to 12 feet
4. Public – 12 feet to 25 feet
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3. Spatial & Territorial Communication
Territorial :the ownership or possessive reaction to a
particular space or object
Primary territories
Areas that you call your own
Secondary territories
Areas that’s not your but you have occupied
Public territories
Areas that are open to public
3. Spatial & Territorial Communication
Human use marker to signal their ownership
1.
Central markers – reserves a territory
2.
Boundary markers – set boundaries between
your territory and others
3.
Ear markers – identify your possessions
Artifactual Comm.:-
messages that are
human-made
1. Color communication
2. Clothing & Body Adornment
3. Space Decoration
4. Smell Communication
1. Attraction messages
2. Identification messages
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Color + Clothing + Space Decoration
Color + Clothing + Space Decoration
Color + Clothing + Space Decoration
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Touch Communication
- the communicative function of touch and touching behavior
The
Meaning
of Touch
1.
Positive emotions
2.
Playfulness
3.
Control
4.
Ritual
5.
Task-relatedness
Paralanguage & Silence Communication
Paralanguage – the vocal but nonverbal dimension of speech
* It has a lot to do with how you say something.
1. Judgment about people
you make judgment about another’s personality on
the basis of the person paralinguistic cues
2. Judgment about comm. effectiveness
how fast you talk influences how others perceive
you
Paralanguage & Silence Communication
Silence – the absence of sound but not communication
Silence may be used to:1.
2.
Allow for thinking time
Hurt others
3.
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Respond to personal anxiety, shyness or threats
Prevent comm.
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Communicate emotional responses
Say nothing when you have nothing to say
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Time Communication
The use of time, how you organize and react to time
Cultural Time
1. Formal time – arbitrary & culturally
established ( second, years, semesters)
2. Informal time – general terms ( forever, soon,
immediately)
Time Communication
Monchronism
People compartmentalize time
Polychronism
People schedule several things at a time
Time Communication
Social Clock
The right time according to your culture &
society, to do a variety of important things
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Time Communication
Psychological Time
- past orientation
- Present orientation
- Future orientation
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