Nonverbal Communication

Apr 10, 2008 at 1:52 PM
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After reading the article about Japanese silences in conversation it got me thinking about nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication is important because it happens continuously and many times people do not realize that they are doing it. It is important to know what each nonverbal act means. It is also important to understand that like spoken language nonverbal language has different meanings from culture to culture. One thing that differs from one culture to another is how close one person gets to another when communicating. People in the eastern cultures might stay further away than those in western culture

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I agree with this completely. I hate when people talk really close to my face. Haha. And I'm sure people hate when I do that too. But yes I have been thinking about this too and I have been working on not talking so much and attempting to understand nonverbal communication of people I am listening to. I think understanding someone's nonverbal communication is really important when listening to another person.

This stuff definitely varies not only from culture to culture, but from social group to social group. There was a Seinfeld talking about the 'close talker'.

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