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Nonverbal Means of Communication

Nonverbal communication (NMC) involves wordless cues such as body language, facial expressions, and touch, playing a crucial role in interpersonal interactions. It encompasses various components including adornment, chronemics, haptics, kinesics, and more, which complement or substitute verbal communication. Despite its recognized importance, the exact contribution of NMC to communication remains an area of ongoing research and complexity.

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Nonverbal Means of Communication

Nonverbal communication (NMC) involves wordless cues such as body language, facial expressions, and touch, playing a crucial role in interpersonal interactions. It encompasses various components including adornment, chronemics, haptics, kinesics, and more, which complement or substitute verbal communication. Despite its recognized importance, the exact contribution of NMC to communication remains an area of ongoing research and complexity.

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Nonverbal communication between people is communication through sending and receiving wordless

clues. It includes the use of visual cues such as body language (kinesics), distance (proxemics) and
physical environments/appearance, of voice (paralanguage) and of touch (haptics).VIVID

Examples of non-verbal communication include shaking hands, patting the back, hugging,
pushing, or other kinds of touch. Other forms of non-verbal communication are facial
expressions, gestures, and eye contact. When someone is talking, they notice changes in facial
expressions and respond accordingly.

Nonverbal means of communication (NMC) have recently come to attention of linguists,


anthropologists, psychologists, communication and discourse studies scholars. It is now a widely
admitted fact that they play an important role in a communicative act. However, how exactly
NMC contribute to communication between individuals still remains an open question.
Moreover, the complexity and particularities (including micro and macro contexts) of a given
conversation may further complicate the case. This post provides a list of useful categories which
may be in play in a given situation.

First of all, let us define nonverbal communication. So, nonverbal communication can be
defined as a system of non-linguistic signs which complement or substitute linguistic signs. This
system includes the following components.

1) Adornment – items of clothing, hairstyles, and jewelry;


2) Chronemics – time use such as waiting and pausing;
3) Haptics – tactile communication or, simply, touch;
4) Kinesics (body language) – foot tapping, gestures, nodding, shrugs, waving by hands, and
other body movements;
5) Locomotion – displacements in space such as limping, stumbling, running, walking;
6) Facial Expressions – such as smiling, frowning, and squinting;
7) Oculesics – eye movements (e.g. winking, closed eyes, eyes wide open);
8) Olfactics – kinds of smell (e.g. pleasant, strong, strange, like Church incense, etc.);
9) Paralanguage – variations in voice qualities and manner of speaking:

a) Silence – pauses, secrecy;


b) Sound Symbols – grunting, mumbling (e.g. ah, hm, uhu);
c) Vocalic – speed, timbre, tone of voice, and volume;

10) Posture – position of the body


11) Proxemics – use of interpersonal space

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