week 7：question 1

[tiffanyyuan24]

 1，what are some of the messages that we communicate through our nonverbal behaviors?

[zan72h]

The first includes facial expression, personal space, gestures, eye contact, paralanguage, use of time, and conversational silence. (What is not said is often as important as what is spoken.) The second includes the cultural spaces that we occupy and negotiate. Cultural spaces are the social and cultural contexts in which our identity forms—where we grow up and where we live (not necess arily the physical homes and neighborhoods, but the cultural meanings created in these places).

 

When the traffic lights dont work, maybe the polices will do the hands direction for controlling the cars from different sides.

[xhuang0802]

I can think of some like gesture, body language and non-verbal spoken language. Actually, I find that we always communicate with each other along with using nonverbal behaviors. And turn out,  we always have a potential to do it without any consciousness and it affects our fundamental communication. Sometimes, non-verbal behaviors will improve our ability to communicate with people. It means that you can have a better demonstration so that the people who listen to you will accept your information more easily and more completed. Like giving a presentation, sometimes your finger will attract the people's eyeball and they can be more focused on that particular context and you would gain a better outcome after doing this.

[eason A2954]

Sometimes we use nonverbal behaviors to express our feeling and it is always stronger than words. When we are listening to others talking, if we feel bored, our eyes will see another more interesting place instead of speaker’s eyes. For example, parents will do that for their children. When we are unhappy, we probably won’t say but others can see our poker faces. For instance, we are blamed by teacher. When our friends are shedding tear for something, we will hug him/her for comforting  him/her. For example, his/her heart was broken. When we feel ashamed, our ears will become red. For example, when everyone knows we take advantage of a little kid, our ears will turn red. When we face strangers at first time, we will shake hands to express how happy we know each other. For instance, first time we go to a meeting and see our new co-workers. When we want to cheer for someone doing something successfully, we will applaud. For example, when our classmates enter a good college, we will applaud. 

[zihan wang(Handy)]

In my opinion, sometimes, our nonverbal hehaviors are very important and necessary. When we meet with some strangers, our first subconscious is stretched our hands. We shank hands for expressing respect and friendship. This is our basic behavior, which likes our instinct. There is no barriers or contradictions of cultures. Sometimes, we feel hard to express emotions through language, we use the nonverbal behaviors, like the hug, which we can easily see in the recent Oscar ceremony. To sum up, nonverbal behaviors is the nonverbal language, which is so powerful and full of our lives. We should correctly and appropriately use it !!

[Van Le]

We use non-verbal communication everyday, such as smiling. It has so many meaning when we smile beside away to express your feeling. When you meet a friend, smiling means “hello”. When you meet a stranger, smiling means “nice to meet you”. When you go into a store, shopkeeper’s smile means “hello, what can I help you”. And it’s also used as “thank you” or an action of being polite.

When we communicate, we use both verbal and non-verbal communication all time. Non-verbal communication is not something so special and occasional. The movements of body, eyes, face or hand when communicating can also be considered belong to non-verbal because we cannot always be like statue during talking.

 

Chris – A 3072

[a3001gavin]

         In my opinion, every day, we respond to thousands on nonverbal cues and behaviors including postures, facial expression, eye gaze, gestures, and tone of voice. From our handshakes to our hairstyles, nonverbal details reveal who we are and impact how we relate to other people. For example, facial expressions are responsible for a huge proportion of nonverbal communication. We can use our smiley face and sad face to tell others that we are happy and sad. For example, we can use our eyes about glaring and winks to tell others about our emotion.

ID a3001     Gavin

[a3000faye]

         I think that nonverbal communication is any way that is used to express thoughts, feelings, or emotions without speaking. Nonverbal communication skills are a vital part of our everyday lives. For example, posture and movement can convey a great deal on information. In this situation, you're busy, you want to answer the others, you will make a “Ok” gesture. For example, we take driver test, we need to know body signals about turn left, turn right and stop. For turn left, we need to straight our left arm. For turn right, we need to make left arm up. For stop, we need to make left arm down.

ID  a3000      Faye

[7681zhu]

Although language is an effective and effcient means of communicating explicit information or content, every communication also conveys relational messages information on how the talker wants to be understood and viewed by the listener. These messages are commiunicated not by words , but through nonverbal behavior, including facial expressions, eye gaze, posture, and even our tone voice. For example, a supervior may be able to touch subordinates, but it is usually unacceptable, for subordinates to touch a supervisor.

 

 

A2760

Xiao Zhu

[dechaoqi]

Nonverbal behaviors&language is the most commonly way that connects us. We need nonverbal behavior to express our emotion and feeling. It is more easily to deliver some imformation than using verbal language. If someone is tried, he/she would more likely to take a rest, finding somewhere to sit or lie down. So, the message he/she bring us is she/he is tried. Eye contact, facial expression, tone of sound,and sound level are all incldued to the nonverbal behaviors.

[dechaoqi]

justin A2872

[chaonan liu]

There are two forms of communication beyond speech. The first includes facial expression, personal space, gestures, eye contact, paralan- guage, use of time, and conversational silence. (What is not said is often as important as what is spoken.) The second includes the cultural spaces that we occupy and negotiate. Cultural spaces are the social and cultural contexts in which our identity forms—where we grow up and where we live (not necessarily the physical homes and neighborhoods, but the cultural meanings created in these places). 

Chaonan Liu

A2800

[Julia Tian (A2854)]

Nonverbal communication is widely used by sensory-deprived children who are blind or deaf. It’s a useful mean to help them communication with each other. Normal people also use nonverbal behavior o lot when we are talking, such as facial expressions, gestures, hand signal and so on. It help us describe more specific when we can’t use language or hard to describe. For example, in professional volleyball game, the athletes always use the hand signal to arrange next tactic. Thus, nonverbal behaviors just like a silent language, it's useful and widely useing in our daily life.