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KMID : 0615219810060010189
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Journal of Kwangju Health
1981 Volume.6 No. 1 p.189 ~ p.211
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Observation on Nonverbal Communication
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Abstract
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We speak with our vocal organs, but we converse with whole body. Before an infant can talk, he expresses his emotion by crying, bitting, or smiling, and by other bodily movements.
The whole of viewing in the communication situation is so great that, we may say, linguistic componence in and by itself is not sufficient to make successful communication possible, unless accompanied by additional visual information. There is no doubt that language not only enables us to communicate with other people but Also helps us to organize our pesent experiences, recall our past, and imagine the future. It also makes problem solving and creative thinking possible. As a system of communication, language is used to share established conceps and ideas, as well as to convey the meaning- of new experience and perceptions. However, language, whether spoken or written, relie too much on the verbal band, which covers only more or less thirty percent of social meaning during the communication.
Many linguists have believed that language is sound, systematic, meaningful, arbitrary, conventional, creative, uniqu, and similar. These characteristics of language are shared with nonverbal language. Nonverbal language also includes sounds: A person can identify his family by the vocal qualities such as pitch range, tempo, articultion control and the like, or by vocal qualifiers such as voice intensty, pich height, and so on. Nonverbal language is meaningful: To a toddler, parents´ open-arm gesture means "come here." Nonverbal language is arbitrary: In India a woman uncovers the upper part of her body in deference, While in most parts of the world men usually put their coats to show respect to ladies. Nonverbal language is also conventional: The American gesture of shooting of one´s head is interpreted as the suicide emblem.
This decoding rule is conventionally acknowledged by the American society. Nonverbal language is unique: The thumb-up gesture in America means hitch-hiking, but in Korea it indicates a boss, father, or a very important person. Nonverbal language is similar: The mode of expression of emotion and attitude is similar across cultures in nonverbal communication.
In this respect, the author primarily dealt with the basic perspectives on nonverbal communication by introducing the variety of terms, definitions, classification, and summarized historical background. In the next glace, from the viewpoint that nonverbal communication cannot be studied in isolation from total communication process, and that human verbal interaction needs the support of nonverbal communication, the author attemped to explicate the kinesic behaviors as emblems, illustrators, regulators, and adapters in addition to the brief linguistic-kinesic analogy.
This study might not provide the readers concerned with nonverbal communication with enough information, but the writer hopes it can at least give a stimulus for a reader to be aware of the importance of nonverbal language in the various interpersonal or intercultural settings.
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