1. Nonverbal Communication
Better at communicating feelings and attitudes
More convincing than verbal messages.
We can communicate without saying anything!

2. Kinesics Body Movement
Adapter: tension reliever like fixing hair, touching nose
Emblems: gestures that mean something. Pointing

3. Tone of voice Often carries more meaning than the actual words.
Vocalics
Tone of voice
Often carries more meaning than the actual words.

4. Space and Distance Cultural Emotion or mood How well we know someone
Proxemics
Space and Distance
Cultural
Emotion or mood
How well we know someone

5. Territory and Environment
Use of space and objects to indicate ownership
Invasion: intruding into someone’s territory.
Contamination: tagging, graffiti, leaving trash.

6. Haptics Professional Touch: Doctor touches patient.
Social/Polite touch: Fist bump, hand shake
Friendship: kiss, bro hug
Love/Intimacy: highly personal

7. Chronemics How TIME is used to structure interactions
Can be used to denote power (the boss can be late, but you can’t!)

8. Appearance What is soma typing?
Classifying people according to body type
What is Halo Effect?
Physical Attractiveness Stereotype
Beautiful = Good

9. What are artifacts?

13. Facial Expression What are the six universal facial expressions? Anger
Happiness
Surprise
Sadness
Disgust
Fear

14. Who is better at reading someone’s facial expression? Men or women?

15. What is masking?
Hiding an expression of emotion and replacing it with a more appropriate expression.

16. Thought (meaning) Symbol Referent (stands for) Triangle of Meaning
ASL for Water
Water
Symbol
Referent (stands for)

17. Triangle of Meaning
Thought
(meaning)
Cat
Symbol
Referent

18. Denotation: Connotation: The dictionary definition of a word.
Emotional meaning based on personal experience and feelings.

19. Triangle of Meaning
Thought
(meaning)
Teacher
Symbol
Referent

20. Bypassing:
Two people have different referents for the same word but they think they are thinking alike.

21. Words and symbols are arbitrary, ambiguous, and abstract.
for no reason, random
Ambiguous:
Confusing
Abstract:
Difficult to understand, not concrete

22. Meaning is in the person, not the word!

23. Social Constructionism: Humans make sense of their world
Social Constructionism: Humans make sense of their world. They make meaning and create their world.

24. Language shapes our relationships.

25. Language allows humans to think hypothetically
Language allows humans to think hypothetically. We can imagine, reflect and plan for the future.

26. Language allows us to name things.