Comm Ch 7

Gestures

Are culturally specific and significant forms of nonverbal communication

Environment boundaries

Are defined as the claimed sense of space and emotional attachment we share with others in our community

Emblems

Are gestures that substitute for words and phrases Shrug your shoulders to say "idk"

Adaptors

Are habits or gestures that fulfill some kind of psychological or physical need

Regulators

Are nonverbal behaviors we use in conversation to control, maintain, or "regulate" the pace and flow of the conversation

Illustrators

Are nonverbal hand gestures that we use along with the spoken message- they literally illustrate the verbal message

Artifacts

Are ornaments or adornments we use to communicate just by wearing the actual item

Cultural display rules

Are the procedures we learn for managing the way we express our emotions

Chronemics

Concerns how people in different cultures structure, interpret, and understand the time dimension

Polychronic time

Cultures pay attention to relational time (involvement with people) and place more emphasis on completing human transactions than on holding to schedules

Monochronic time

Cultures pay close attention to clock time and do one thing at a time

Haptics

Examines the perceptions and meanings of touch behavior

Nonlinguistic cues

Include nonverbal eye contact, smiles, touch, hand gestures, or even silence

Temporal regulation

Is defined as the attitudes we have about time

Paralanguage

Is the sounds and tones we use in conversation and the speech behavior that accompanies the message

Kinesics

Is the study of posture, body movement, gestures, and facial expressions

Proxemics

Is the study of space between persons, physical contact, and the inner anxiety we have when people violate our space

Feng shui

Literally means "air" and "water" in Chinese

Low contact cultures

Often engage in little if any touching, preferring indirect eye gazes and speaking in a lower tone

High contact cultures

Often look each other in the eye directly, face each other, touch and/or kiss each other, and speak in rather loud voices

Paralinguistic cues

Refer to the tone of voice, pitch, or volume of the sounds that accompany a verbal message

Intrapersonal space

Refers to the need for information privacy or psychological silence between the self and others

sadfish

Sadness, anger, disgust, fear, interest, surprise, and happiness

Nonverbal communication

The message exchange process involving the use of nonlinguistic and paralinguistic cues that are expressed through multiple communication channels in a particular sociocultural setting

Paralinguistic features

The nonword sounds and characteristics of speech