Non-Textual Communication

Nancy Gaytan

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Communication through Technology...is predominantly textual

Textual communication (typing) is the primary method of communication online, just like speech is the primary form of face to face communication

Web searches, articles, IMs, Facebook, Wikipedia, chatrooms, recipes, e-mail, blog posts, etc. All of them are heavily based in text.

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YouTube and Skype

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Nonverbal Communication Types

• Kinesics: facial expression, body motion, gestures

• Tactilism: Behavior and touch• Paralanguage: Stress, pitch, quality

and intonation of voice• Proxemics: Space and distance (Knott,

Nonverbal Communication During Early Childhood)

• Artifacts: Clothing, cosmetics, etc.• Environmental factors: (Do you

really need a definition for this?) Factors, traits, objects that make up and contribute to an environment

(Knott, Nonverbal Communication During Early Childhood)

Nonverbal Communication Types

Nonverbal Communication is one of the largest contributing factors in children’s development of linguistic skills and understanding.

After childhood, nonverbal communication constantly shapes our self-expression and understanding of others.

Significance

● Creates more personal connections● Can reveal true feelings● Are learned and expressed by

everyone● Have different meanings by culture

Nonverbal Communication also

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Learning About Nonverbal Communication

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Dance● Dance is kinesthetic movement, and is

thereby a form of communication● Different motions may be representative

of different emotions● Different movements combine to create

phrases in dance. Phrases in dance are similar to sentences in speech.

● While specific or vague emotions may be conveyed through the movement, the observer may experience different emotions. This miscommunication is a normal part of communication through dance.

Dance

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Dance as Communication

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Music Speaks• Music incorporates language to convey

messages• Familiarity with music elicits stronger

emotional responses; music repeats in refrains

• Music develops stronger meaning with repeated listening (Hellmuth Margulis)

• The repetition in music elicits stronger emotional responses than communication through direct speech

• The composer expresses one set of emotion and one message through the music’s composition

• The musician expresses a different set of expression in the way in which they play the music; similar to intonation in words, music’s pitch, tone, sound,volume, etc, affect how the sound is interpreted.

Music in two parts:

Conveying Emotion through MusicMusic Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce3o-laUiwU

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• Textless communication Vision impaired persons can still listen to

audio recordings of novels online, and communicate through music

The Hearing impaired can still communicate through dance using CMC

o They can also still enjoy online comics! (See next slide)

Emancipatory Effect

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Necessary Inclusion?

• Textual vs. Non-textual communication crossover:

Comics with text Lyric videos YouTube comments section Videos labeled and found using words Skype’s IM function Cultural impact on communction

• Studying non-textual alone misses a lot of the impact that jointly textual and non-textual communication has on communication.

Audio-Visual Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkYlIA7mgw

Mixed Methods of Communication

Why Study This?Youtube and Skype video: Allow for contact with people all over the world. Culture and nature are inseparable (Knott,

Nonverbal Communication: Where Nature Meets Culture) and since these two factors contribute to behavior, through Non-textual CMC, cultures will influence future communication.

Importance of Non-Textual StudyFurthermore, since non-textual communication is equally as significant to CMC non-verbal communication is to face-to-face speech, this field of study is important in shaping CMC and should be further examined in a technological context.

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