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Chapter Five |
| << Module Two Overview | > Assignments Ch. Four | > Assignments Ch. Five | > Assignments Ch. Six |
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guide it, nonverbal communication is a language unto itself. Chapter
Five examines the rules and norms that we learn for using nonverbal vocabularies
of touch, space, time, paralanguage, artifacts and environment. |
| Examine one type of nonverbal behavior to explore how it is used in encoding and decoding messages. | |
| Describe how nonverbal communication is used in your speech community. | |
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For our posting for this discussion, choose one of the following topics and then answer each of the questions on the bullet list below.
Next, address the following questions about that vocabulary of nonverbal communication based on the characteristics of nonverbal communication discussed on page 117: [For the fourth edition, use page 111.]
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| You may also find some useful points to elaborate your posting by examining the Web links on this page, especially the Interpersonal Web Page on Nonverbal Communication and the Dictionary of Gestures. |
Nonverbal Communication <http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/ spd110td/interper/message/ messagenonverbal.html> Dictionary of Gestures <http://members.aol.com/ nonverbal2/diction1.htm> |
| As you describe the nonverbal communication used in your speech community, apply concrete examples for the pertinent key terms: |
emblems illustrators regulators adaptors affect display proxemics territory chronemics paralanguage haptics. |
As we learn language in our speech community,
so also do we learn the rules and norms for unspoken language. Post a
description of your culture and how members of that culture use nonverbal
communication.
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Nonverbal Communication <http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/ spd110td/interper/message/ messagenonverbal.html> Dictionary of Gestures <http://members.aol.com/ nonverbal2/diction1.htm #The NONVERBAL DICTIONARY> |
emblems illustrators regulators adaptors affect display proxemics territory chronemics paralanguage haptics. |
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