This week in class, we have been talking about non verbal cues. Just the other day my friend and I had a little disagreement in regard to our youth group's bulletin. Everyone else was fine with it, but she was trying to push for a change in fonts. Even though she said 'it's ok, let's just go print it', the tone of a voice made it obvious she really was not happy about it because she said it softly and she looked away after that. This is linked to paralinguistics and osculesics. After having comms class then i realised that there were indeed theories behind that, and not just because I know her inside out that's why I could figure out her true feelings when the rest did not really notice.
Recently I have been watching a serial called Yamada Taro Monogatari and in it, something caught my attention to do for this comms blog. I think for those who want to view it might have to download veoh tv to watch it. http://www.veoh.com/videos/v812039sHFY6R3S
At 45:30, the scene started outside the Principal's office and the sound of porcelain/glass shaking. Turns out that this guy was "talking down" on the teacher and she being scared, was trembling with a cup in her hand. She just sat there looking straight, not daring to look at him. This, I learnt was a type of non verbal cue, Kinesics and under the category of affect display. This lets the observer, like me sense her anxiety and nervousness she has around that guy who is her senior. This is shown throughout the rest of the series, i think, because I have not finished it yet.
But through all these i never knew that we really rely a lot on non verbal cues to interpret how other people feel and what they really mean when they say something.
3 comments:
haha brilliant idea to put down your favourite jap show and apply it to what u learned in class..
yup, it is said that the asian's form of communication is mostly based on Low context forms.
Howeverm based on your experience itslef, we can see how important non-verbal communication for you to decode that your friend wasnt really agreeing with you due to the untallying of her voice.
conversations would turn out pretty retarded you had to tlak to soemone who doesnt understand non-verbal cues.
aye, asian society is more high context. yeah but conversations based on words without any action, i think i would just die of boredom. its like just a mass amt of info going in without any processing or decoding.
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