Chapter 3 Notes:

– Nonverbal communication is everything that communicates a message sans words.
– Elements: kinesics (movement), proxemics (space), vocalics (voice), chronemics (time), haptics (touch)
– What are some specific examples? What is backchannel comm, turn taking?(54/ 65-76)

– Decoding: drawing meaning from an observation ( he smiles: “he is happy”), Encoding: sending meaning through nonverbal behavior ( I smile: “ I am happy”)
– Where do we derive these meanings? (55)

– Static: fixed elements of an interaction (furniture arrangement), Dynamic: changing elements of an interaction (posture)
– How can these elements negatively affect an interaction? Positively affect it? (55-56)

– Nonverbal guidelines:
– symbolic: polysemic
– rule guided: appropriateness of behavior
– culturally bound: elements
– personal: context
– ambiguous: interpretative
– less controlled: (leakage)
– continuous: non- stop communication
– What is “leakage”? Do you agree that non-verbal is less controlled than verbal comm? (60)

– Nonverbal functions:
– interconnects with verbal comm. (repeat, substitute, moderate, contradict, emphasize)
– regulates interaction: how you are to behave and desired behavior of others (regulators- punctuate)
– identifies others: identifiers
– transmits emotional information: three kinds: attitudes about the other, attitude about the situation, attitude toward yourself (decode, encode) (elements)
– establishes meaning: relationships develop
– What are common identifiers? What are some examples of the ways we portray “attitudes”? (63-64)