CMST 192 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Burping, Nonverbal Communication, Paralanguage
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See previous part for the rest of chapter 5 notes. Our voice is second to our face in communication for emotions. Our voice communicates information about our age, sex, gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and religious background. Paralanguage or vocal cues are usually divided into three classes: vocal characterizers (laughing, yelling, moaning, crying, whining, belching, yawning etc, vocal qualifiers (volume, tone, pitch, resonance, rhythm, and rate, vocal segregates (uh, um, hum, mhm, oo, shh) Space communicates in power and significant ways. Proxemics is the study of the influence that distance and territoriality have on our communication. Distance: defining relationships: four types of spatial relationships based on distances between individual"s communication: intimate, personal, social, and public distances. (no notes to be taken in this area, it mainly gives examples of space, if you want to see the section is on page 134) Knowledge of the myriad ways nonverbal codes influence our communication with others is the first step toward competent nonverbal communication.
