SYG 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Erving Goffman, Nonverbal Communication, Impression Management
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Humor is popular to use to repair the breach: opening signal to start of an encounter the first bracket. " the closing bracket marks the end of the encounter. Civil inattention or non verbal bracket, purposely refraining from direct interacting with someone until an opening bracket has been issued. Ethnomethodolgy: garfinkel developed a method for studying social interactions, Ethnomethodology, involves acting critically about them: means the methods of the people. Nonverbal communication: mostly learned rather that innate, most people get better at reading facial expression with age, types. Paralanguage all vocal aspects of speech other than words, ex. Body language communication through the silent motion of out body, facial expressions, gestures. Interpersonal spacing nonverbal communication involving the ways in which people position themselves at varying distances and angles from others. Choice of personal effects selecting and displaying objects that others associate with you, ex makeup, hair, clothing: combining nonverbal and verbal com.
