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Non Verbal Communication

Defining

NVC.............................. ?
• “Non -Verbal Communication is the message
or response not expressed or sent in words”
• Actions speak louder than words.

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• Non -Verbal signals are unconscious parts of our
behavior
• In fact, it is the most basic part of our personality
• Communication researcher suggested that Over 65
percent of the social meanings of the messages we send to
others are communicated non-verbally
TYPES OF NON-VERBAL MESSAGES
• A. Body Language B. Clothing C. Voice or Paralanguage

• D. Space and Distance E. Color F. Time

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• G. Touch
Body Language

• It is all about gestures, postures, and


facial expressions by which a person
communicates nonverbally with
others
Gestures
• Emblems or symbols ("V" for victory)
• Illustrators (police officer's hand held up to stop
traffic)

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Body language expert
Body Language speaks a lot
Clothing
• Specially, Cloth of a person indicates lot
about the personality
Voice or paralanguage
• There are some voice which explain
everything without speaking words

• Crying
Distance, Space
• Standing too close is interpreted as being pushy or
overbearing;
• So there should be comfortable space zone among
people while standing, seating and talking.
Color Influences
Communication

Yellow cheers Red excites


and and Blue for comforts
elevates moods stimulates

In some In some
cultures cultures
black suggests white suggests
Sadness purity
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Time
• How do we manage
and react to time
– punctuality

Microsoft Photo

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Time (Chronemics)
• Attitudes toward time vary from culture to culture.
• Countries that follow monochronic (do one thing at a
time) time perform only one major activity at a time
(U.S., England, Switzerland, Germany).
• Countries that follow polychronic time work on several
activities simultaneously (Latin America, the
Mediterranean, the Arabs).

Intercultural Business 15
Communication, 4th ed., Chaney
Touch (Haptics)

• Touch, when used properly, may create


feelings of warmth and trust; when used
improperly, touch may cause annoyance
and betray trust.

Guiding another’s motion


Nonverbal Signals
Vary from culture to culture

Microsoft Photo
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