What do you understand by the term ‘non-verbal communication’? What are its
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Nonverbal communication is the transfer of information through the use of body language including eye contact, facial expressions, gestures and more. Verbal communication is the use of language to transfer information through written text, speaking or sign language.
Easy presentation: Information can be easily presented in non-verbal communication through using visual, audio-visual and silent means of non-verbal communication. Substituting: Non-verbal message may substitute for the verbal message especially if it is blocked by noise, interruption, long distance etc.
Non-verbal communication occurs without using any oral or written word. ... Common types of nonverbal communication are; eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, posture and body orientation, body language, touch, para-linguistic, silence.
There are 10 types of nonverbal Communication: environment, appearance and artifacts, proxemics and territoriality, haptics, paralanguage, chronemics, kinesics, and eye contact.
There are five functions of non-verbal communication: reinforcement, contradiction, substitution, accentuation, and regulation. All of these functions help the person sending a message and the person receiving the message my making the substance of the communication more understandable.
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Nonverbal communication is the transfer of information through the use of body language including eye contact, facial expressions, gestures and more. Verbal communication is the use of language to transfer information through written text, speaking or sign language.
- It's advantages are:-
- Complementary: Non-verbal cues complement a verbal message by adding to its meaning. You can pat someone you offended at the back as you say sorry to him or her.
- Easy presentation: Information can be easily presented in non-verbal communication through using visual, audio-visual and silent means of non-verbal communication.
- Accenting: Often used to accent a verbal message. Verbal tone indicates the actual meaning of the specific words.
- Repeat: Used to repeat the verbal message (e.g. point in a direction while stating directions.)
- Help to illiterate people: This type of communication use gestures, facial expressions, eye contact, proximity, touching etc. and without using any spoken or written word. So, it is very much helpful for illiterate people.
- Help to handicapped people: Non-verbal cues of communication greatly help in handicapped people especially to deaf people. Deaf people are exchange message through the movements of hands, fingers, eye ball etc.
- Attractive presentation: Non-verbal communication is based on visual, picture, graph, sign etc. that can be seen very much attractive.
- Reducing wastage of time: The message of non-verbal communication reached the receiver very fast. For this reason it reduces the wastage of valuable time of the communicator.
- Quick expression of message: Non-verbal cues of communication like sign and symbol can also communicate some messages very quickly than written or oral messages.
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