Chapter 6(b) Non Verbal Communication

Our lecturer continues the lecture for chapter 6 and talked about the channel of nonverbal message. Those are spatial message (a specific distance maintain yourself and others), artifactual  communication (message that are human-made), smell communication (communication through odor), touch communication (haptic), paralanguage (nonverbal dimension of speech), silence and time communication.

We usually apply touch communication and silence in our daily life. For example, touch communication might occur when we’re comforting a person who is sad or down with sweeping his or her back as calm down sign. Furthermore, most if the time we keep silence if we’re angry and do not want to respond to others.

For cultural part, the gesture is the most interesting part out of facial expression, eye communication, touch, paralanguage and silence. I didn’t know that a sign means different in different country. For instance, an “OKAY” sign mean okay in most of the country but mean asshole in Brazil and Argentina. Moreover, boys should learn about the meaning of roses in terms of the amount. Different amount represent different meaning.