L6 | NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

• NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

  • interaction where behavior is used to convey and represent meaning
  • enhance the meaning of verbal communication
• TYPES OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

  1. kinesics
  2. chronemics
  3. proxemics
  4. haptics
  5. chromatics
  6. olfactics
  7. paralanguage
• KINESICS

  • “Language of the body”
  • Study of hand, arm, body, and face movements
  • Facial expressions
  • Eye contact
  • Body language
  • Physical appearance
  • Gestures 
• CHRONEMICS

  • “Language of the time”
  • Chronological order
  • Not directly stated but communicates a characteristic of a person
• PROXEMICS

  • “Language of the space and distance”
  • EDWARD HALL
  • Coined the term in 1963
  • Anthropologists who stressed that space plays a big factor on a person’s social or interpersonal relationship 
• 4 LEVELS OF DISTANCE

  • intimate: 0-18 inches
  • personal: 18-4 feet
  • social: 4-12 feet
  • public: 12 feet to infinity
• HAPTICS

  • “Language of the touch”
  • Aids in giving emphasis to what one needs to say
• CHROMATICS

  • “Language of the colors”
  • Symbolism (color of flowers)
  • Yellow Flower – friendship and filial love
  • Red Flower – intimate love
  • White Flower – purity
  • Black – tragic romance
  • Pink Flower – innocence and youth 
  • Purple Flower - dignity, pride and success
  • Laurel - immortality 
  • Santan - simplicity
• OLFACTICS

  • “Language of the smell”
• PARALANGUAGE

  • Paralinguistics
  • Refers to the “how” of saying something other than what is said.
  • Enhance with intonation, pitch, volume