UTM115H5 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Touch Typing, American Speech, Machismo
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Highly ambiguous in context with environment and circumstances (intentional/unintentional) Primarily hand gestures, with direct verbal translation (metacommunicative functions) Could be used to insult or indicate fight. Primary emotions expressed universally, but what the emotion makes you feel is cultural. Collectivistic cultures less comfortable expressing negative emotions. Affect displays: non-verbal presentations of emotions (facial expressions) Regulators : nonverbal acts that manage and govern communication between people such as stance, distance, eye contact. Adaptors: mostly unconscious nonverbal actions such that satisfy physiological or psychological needs such as scratching an itch. Gaze and degree of eye contact diff in diff cultures. Nonverbal elements of voice (silence or stressed words/sounds, pitch, rhythm, intensity) Significant differences in touch type, frequency, and location across cultural contexts. Microcultural group status- determined by ones membership in sex, racial, ethnic or religious groups (muted groups lack linguistic power and communicate through another mode of expression) Black americans- communication: ebonics (african american speech pattern with roots in west africa).
