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
I am going to discuss what we learned in class today about responses.
Request:
Could you please tutor me?
Accept: Yes
Reject: I have a lot of work to do so I do not think I would have time
Assesment:
It is really pretty out today
Agree: Yes it was
Disagree: I thought it was a little warm at times
Blame:
You forgot to take out the trash:
Denial: No I did not forget I just have not been back to the house yet
Blame: You were suppose to do it
Offer/Invitation:
Would you like to go to dinner tonight?
Accept: That would be great.
Reject: No thank you. I have to work tonight.
Question:
How are you?
Expected: I am fine you?
Unexpected: Not good at all I have been having a really bad day.
Are all of these correct?
I am going to see if I understand the explicatures that we went over in class
1) Disambiguation
Example: Mary sat down on the side of the bank last night.
bank could either be a place where money is kept or a bank of a river
2) Reference Assignment
Example: Mary told Sarah the she would give her back her book tomorrow.
Could be: Mary told Sarah the Sarah would give Mary back her book tomorrow
Mary told Sarah the Mary would give Sarah back her book tomorrow
3) Enrichment
Example: It was cold out
either this morning or yesterday or when I was outside last it was cold out
Are these correct?
I am going to use the tree that was drawn on the board in class to see if I know the different types of politeness
Wanting someone to turn down the radio
1) You can either Say something or Say nothing (either point to your ear and make and face or you could use your hand to make the motion of turning down the volume
2) If you say something it is either on the record or a hint (Wow you really like to listen to your music loudly)
3) If you say something on the record it can either be bald ( I am not quite sure what this means) or it can be face-saving
4) If it is face-saving it can either be positive politeness (turn down the music I can concentrate) or it can be negative politness (could you please turn down your music a little bit?)
Did I do these correctly? Could you help me with a bald statement?
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