CS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: The Roots, Albert Mehrabian, Orbicularis Oculi Muscle
13 Mar 2016
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Body in movement: vocal cues, facial expression, eye movement, gesture, touch. The communication environment: proxemics, territory, architecture. Mediated nonverbal communication: film, advertising, politics. Tone is non-verbal but what you"re saying is verbal. Verbal communication gains a large part of its meaningfulness from nonverbal cues. Although we may encode a sign nonverbally its decoding is often done linguistically . What this means is that many nonverbal cues (a-ok, hand wave) are signs that carry representational meaning: arbitrary relationship between a word and the thing it signifies. As such, they are also verbal or have a signifying element not unlike words. It is impossible to completely separate the verbal from the nonverbal inter-subjective behavior: body in movement, body language, kinesics the study of the way in which certain body movements and gestures serve as a form of nonverbal communication. How verbal and nonverbal behavior interact: 1. Encoding: i. intrinsic the sign is the thing. Signing how big or small something is: iii.
