Non Verbal Communication

Binod Kumar Takur(12),

Dipak Kumar Sharma(19),

Kumar Nishant(36).

Non Verbal Communication

Binod Kumar Thakur(12),

Kumar Nishant(36).

What is non verbal communication?Nonverbal communication is usually understood as the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless messagesSuch messages can be communicated through gesture; body language or posture; facial expression and eye contact; object communication such as clothing, hairstyles

Types of nonverbal communication

Facial Expression – There are six main facial expression found in all cultures are:

Happiness (round eyes, smile, round cheek) Fear (around eyes, open mouth) Angry (lower eyebrow, and stare intensely) Disgusting (wrinkled nose, lowered eyelids and

eyebrow, raised upper lips) Surprise (raised eyebrow, wide open eyes, open mouth) Sadness (area around mouth and eyes)

Types cont… Gestures - Deliberate movements and

signals. Common gestures include waving, pointing, and using fingers to indicate number

amounts. Body Language and Posture -Posture

and movement can also convey a great deal on information. Such as arm-crossing, and leg-crossing, hands in the pocket, hands on the hips.

Proxemics - is the study of how people use and perceive the physical space around them

Types cont… Eye Gaze - Looking, staring, and blinking can

also be important nonverbal behaviors. Haptics - Haptics is the study of touching as

nonverbal communication. Handshakes, holding hands, kissing (cheek, lips, hand), back slap, high five, shoulder pat, brushing arm, e.t.c

Paralanguage - Paralanguage (sometimes called vocalics) is the study of nonverbal cues of the voice. Various acoustic properties of speech such as tone voice, pitch, loudness, inflection e.t.c

 

Advantage of non verbal communication

You can communicate with someone who is hard of hearing of deaf.

You can communicate at place where you are supposed to maintain silence.

You can communicate something which you don't want others to hear or listen to.

You can communicate if you are far away from a person. The person can see but not hear you.

Non-verbal communication makes conversation short and brief.

Disadvantage of non verbal communication

You can not have long conversation. It varies culture to culture. Can not discuss the particulars of your

message. Difficult to understand and requires a lot of

repetitions. Can not be used as a public tool for

communication. Less influential and can not be used

everywhere.

What is this Posture?

Know Your Body Language

Eye Contact

Hand Shake

Closed Body Language

Not Interested In You.

Facial Expression

What to do!!

Facial Expression

Happiness!!!

Facial Expression

Anger!!!

Facial Expression

Fear!!!

Cultural difference in

Non- verbal communication

What about this?

In France means “ I don’t believe you”.

But in Somalia means “ I see you” or “ look”.

What about this?

Most of the world means “O.K”

In Iran means “extremely obscene” OR rude.

In Nigeria “Good luck”. In Japan means “five”. In Turkey means

“political rightist party”

What about this?

In Somalia means “ rude or dishonest sign”.

In some parts of Europe means “ private signal to show that something is joke”.

What about this?

commonly means “everything is all right or perfect”.

In France means “worthless”.

Japan means “ money”.

In German means “ rude”.

What about this?

In Brazil means “Good luck”.

Russia means “you get nothing from me”.

Yugoslavia means “you can’t have it”.

Turkey, Tunisia & Holland means “obscene”.

THANK YOU!