CHAPTER 6 NON VERBAL COMMUNICATION

Nonverbal communication is a communication without involving words BUT expressions, body languages, gestures, movements, external factors (the way we dress).

Benefits of nonverbal communication

1.       You can communicate with someone who is deaf or weak at hearing.

2.       You can communicate at places where you are supposed to be silent.

3.       You can communicate something which you don’t want others to know or listen.

4.       You can communicate when you are far apart in particular distance.

5.       It makes you conversation short and sweet.

The functions of Non-Verbal Communication

1.       Integrating Non-Verbal Messages

Non-Verbal Messages may be used to form or complement impressions, both made to and from you.

·         To accent or emphasize the verbal messages

·         To complement or add nuances of meaning to verbal messages

·         To contradict the verbal messages

·         To regulate or to try to control verbal messages

·         To repeat or relate the verbal message nonverbally

·         To substitute for verbal messages

2.       Forming and Managing Impressions

·         To be liked

·         To be believed

·         To avoid failure

·         To secure help

·         To hide faults

·         To be followed

·         To confirm self-image and to communicate it to others

3.       Defining relationship

Non-verbal communication (NVC) and gestures are used in various stages of relationships
For example:

                                I.            To employers, you tend to look professional and likeable.

                              II.            To normal friends, you tend to be casual, communicating in a more openly way.

                            III.            To best friends you could go crazy.

                            IV.            Dating with your girlfriend or boyfriend

4.       Structuring Conversation

5.       Influencing and Deceiving

NVC can be used to influence others into believing at the same time distracting others.

6.       Express Emotions

The Channels of Non-Verbal Communication

·          Body Messages

 

·         Body Appearance

 

·         Facial Communication

 

·         Eye Communication

 

·         Spatial Messages

·         Artifactual Communication

 

·         Smell Communication

·         Touch Communication (Haptic)

·         Paralanguage

·         Silence

 

·         Time Communication (Chronemics)

Culture and Non-Verbal Communication

·         Culture and Gestures

·         Culture and Facial Expression

·         Culture and Eye Communication

·         Culture and Non-Verbal Communication

How does a blind man communicate with a deaf man?

Avariety of ways, depending on the individual. They can, and do, use sign language. 
For those that use sign language, you will find that they either use tactile signing or close-vision signing depending on how much vision they have, or what kind of vision loss. 
Close vision signing involves the deaf-blind individual being close to the signer, and often they will hold onto the wrists of the signer in order to make it easier to see and track the signs. 

Tactile signing involves signing into the hands of the deaf-blind person.
For Example: Helen Keller.

In a nutshell, in our everyday life, most of us uses verbal messages and goes along with non-verbal messages. Though we don’t pay much attention on this, people are studying us on how we behave. It is important to how we control ourselves for the sake of our well-being. Being happy and yet not showing any signs of happiness don’t make sense at all, the picture is not complete. Besides that, culture plays an important part in our life because if we tend to be practicing Japanese culture in Malaysia, it will look unpleasant, same goes to the opposite way. So, body languages and verbal communication normally come together in a way to express ourselves. If there’s only verbal communication, our message can’t be understood by others in a more proper manner.