LIR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nonverbal Communication, Kinesics, Proxemics

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Language and Intercultural Relations
• Course: LIR 100
• Professor: Jamin Pelkey

Document Summary

Emic is all about inside perspective close study and understanding system. Etic is from an outside perspective more critical, see things from distance. Haptics hands and touching things, rubbing shoulders. Paralanguage non-verbal elements of language, the tone, laughter, sobs, intensity (soft/loud), pitch (high/low), uhm, uhh, ahh its related to language, on the line of language, not the core of language, can have an overt emotional response. Chronemics time in a conversation, careful study of time and how they map onto non-verbal (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)atio(cid:374), (cid:858)isla(cid:374)d ti(cid:373)e(cid:859), Haptics touch, what how and when to touch and if it(cid:859)s okay, where the person is being touched. Kinesics study of the way in which certain body movements and gestures serve as a form of nonverbal communication, eye contact. Olfactics study of communication via smell, cologne vs body odour. It seems like you have a basic choice in behaviours you learn and inherit.