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What is nonverbal communication?
Non-verbal communication (from the Latin non = not, verbum = word and communicare = to communicate; non-verbal communication) is any communication that is not verbal, i.e. neither via spoken language nor via sign or written language. Understanding systems in which linguistic signs are "translated" by one of these systems into another modality, for example Lormen or signs accompanying spoken language, do not count as non-verbal communication either, since these are codings of the respective verbal systems from which they are derived . Writing, tone of voice and speaking behavior can also convey essential - non-verbal - paralinguistic messages about a person, just as there are, in addition to the verbal parts of picture scripts and sign languages, non-verbal parts that supplement the orally transmitted message.
On another level, the use of different signs is also called non-verbal communication. A distinction is made between signs, signs (rising smoke for fire), imitative signs (e.g. information graphics, symbols) and indicative signs (e.g. traffic signs). Another reading of the term is the equation of non-verbal communication with non-vocal communication and verbal communication with spoken language communication. This reading is widespread in everyday language, but does not correspond to the way the term is used in linguistics.
In a broader sense, the term non-verbal communication denotes any non-verbal behavior that provides information about the internal states of the living being. In this reading, there is non-verbal communication as soon as the recipient of the communication draws conclusions from the behavior of the other person or from the perceptible results of the other; in this case, the sender does not need to have a communicative intention. Examples of this are blushing as a communication of embarrassment or a guilty conscience, design of the appearance such as clothing and accessories, hairstyle, tattoos and decorative scars - to home furnishings and design measures in architecture that are intended to express a group membership or a certain attitude towards life .
The carriers of the message are then not only deliberately controllable expressions such as gestures, facial expressions, eye contact or non-verbal vocalizations such as laughter, but in this usage of the term any behavior can be considered non-verbal communication. Paul Watzlawick's well-known saying that one cannot not communicate relates to this fact. Following Watzlawick, non-verbal communication is sometimes also referred to as analog communication, and verbal communication as digital.
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Source: Knapp M., Hall J. A. , Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction. 2006; Darwin C. R. , The expression of the emotions in man and animals1 1872; Schober O., Körpersprache. Schlüssel zum Verhalten. 2010; Linke A., Nussbaumer M., Portmann P., Studienbuch Linguistik. 1996; Cerwinka G., Schranz G., Die Macht der versteckten Signale. 1999
Non-verbal communication (from the Latin non = not, verbum = word and communicare = to communicate; non-verbal communication) is any communication that is not verbal, i.e. neither via spoken language nor via sign or written language. Understanding systems in which linguistic signs are "translated" by one of these systems into another modality, for example Lormen or signs accompanying spoken language, do not count as non-verbal communication either, since these are codings of the respective verbal systems from which they are derived . Writing, tone of voice and speaking behavior can also convey essential - non-verbal - paralinguistic messages about a person, just as there are, in addition to the verbal parts of picture scripts and sign languages, non-verbal parts that supplement the orally transmitted message.
On another level, the use of different signs is also called non-verbal communication. A distinction is made between signs, signs (rising smoke for fire), imitative signs (e.g. information graphics, symbols) and indicative signs (e.g. traffic signs). Another reading of the term is the equation of non-verbal communication with non-vocal communication and verbal communication with spoken language communication. This reading is widespread in everyday language, but does not correspond to the way the term is used in linguistics.
In a broader sense, the term non-verbal communication denotes any non-verbal behavior that provides information about the internal states of the living being. In this reading, there is non-verbal communication as soon as the recipient of the communication draws conclusions from the behavior of the other person or from the perceptible results of the other; in this case, the sender does not need to have a communicative intention. Examples of this are blushing as a communication of embarrassment or a guilty conscience, design of the appearance such as clothing and accessories, hairstyle, tattoos and decorative scars - to home furnishings and design measures in architecture that are intended to express a group membership or a certain attitude towards life .
The carriers of the message are then not only deliberately controllable expressions such as gestures, facial expressions, eye contact or non-verbal vocalizations such as laughter, but in this usage of the term any behavior can be considered non-verbal communication. Paul Watzlawick's well-known saying that one cannot not communicate relates to this fact. Following Watzlawick, non-verbal communication is sometimes also referred to as analog communication, and verbal communication as digital.
Contact therapists & counselors now.
Source: Knapp M., Hall J. A. , Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction. 2006; Darwin C. R. , The expression of the emotions in man and animals1 1872; Schober O., Körpersprache. Schlüssel zum Verhalten. 2010; Linke A., Nussbaumer M., Portmann P., Studienbuch Linguistik. 1996; Cerwinka G., Schranz G., Die Macht der versteckten Signale. 1999
