LIT 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Public Space, Paralanguage, Eye Contact
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Gesture that satisfy some personal need (scratching to relieve an itch or moving your hair out of your eyes) - type of nonverbal comm. thru body movement. Self-touching movement (ex: rubbing your nose) - type of adaptor. Movement directed at person with whom you"re speaking (ex: removing lint from someone"s jacket) - type of adaptor. Gestures focused on objects (ex: doodling on or shredding a styrofoam coffee cup) - type of adaptor. Kinesics (study of nonverbal comm. thru faces and body movements); emblems, illustrators, Affect displays, regulators, adaptors: general body appearance (attractiveness) - type of nonverbal comm. channel. Facial management techniques - enables you to comm. feelings to achieve effect you want (ex: hiding certain emotions and emphasizing others); encoding/decoding accuracy --- type of nonverbal comm. channel. Ranges from touching to 18 inches; presence of other individual is unmistakable - space, a type of nonverbal comm. channel.
