LESSON 2

• People transmit messages using visual communication.
• Messages can also be sentusing auditory or the use of sound.
• The use of tactile or the sensory receptors asin using braille can transmit messages.
• Haptic is the use of touch to send messages.
• Olfactory helps send messages using the smell.
• Electronic communication like telephone, electronic mail, cable television or satellite broadcast are used as channels as well.
• The facial expression or kinesics, the body language, paralanguage or tone, rate, pitch, gestures, proxemics or distance, iconics or symbols, chronemics or time, posture, dress and appearanceare used to send messages and they have patterns, forms, and meanings that receivers use to decode to interpret.
• Nonverbal messages must be coherent- “with what is being said”.
• Nonverbal messages must contain the three basic requirements of a verbal communication; clarity, coherence, and credibility.
• auditory or the use of sound