CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Intentionality, Proxemics, Paralanguage

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 1A03
• Professor: Alexandre Sevigny

Document Summary

Functions of nonverbal communication: repeating (emblems, ex. training a dog with hand signals, substituting, can be better to use nonverbal over verbal, or vice versa, complementing (illustrators, giving directions, people point and use finger movements to illustrate where to go, accenting, emphasizing your point with nonverbal, ex. clapping or stomping, regulating, turn one shoulder out, averting gaze, distancing from person, shielding self with hands, contradicting (mixed messages, telling someone one thing, yet expressing an opposing message with nonverbal communication, a mistake that people make is shaking when shaking hands, they don"t make eye contact shows disinterest. Types of nonverbal communication: posture and gesture, kinesics (the study of the body, gesture and posture, changes with time, manipulators, communicate better when holding something or doing something, face and eyes, affect blends (combos of different expressions showing different emotions, voice, paralanguage (nonverbal messages) reinforcing with your body ex. the way you walk and present yourself, disfluencies (interruptions in the flow of communication)