Shrugging your shoulders is one form of nonverbal communication. It can mean so many things. " I don't know" is a common meaning, "I don't care", or you could shrug your shoulders as part of a dance move. Depending on the context, whether you are in a good mood or bad mood, "I don't know" can even mean two different things. It could be an "I know but I don't feel like answering" I don't know, or it could be an authentic "I don't know". Either way, shrugging your shoulders is one form of nonverbal communication that can be misinterpreted. Nonverbal communication is important because it can either ad to a point, or distract from it. Can tell us if someone is lying or sincere, and can speak words even if we don't say them. Everybody uses nonverbal communication in everyday life and it is one of the most important types of communication.
"The person who controls and possesses information has power." I think this means that people who know things get more out of it, such as a teacher knows more than the students about a particular subject, and therefore has power over the students. Or a doctor has more medical knowledge than a patient so he has a higher labled status (power) than the patients or ordinary people. We need to be aware of this information because as speakers, we hold a certain power over our audience. When we give a speech, whether about a personal subject, or based on research, we have certain knowledge that our audience does not, therefore we have the power to control their interest. If we learn how to control and use this information to somewhat apply to everyone in the audience in an effective way, then we have the makings of an effective and interesting speech. Nonverbal communication is also a part of this factor. By the motions of our hands, face and bodies durring a speech we can give a certain tone to the words we are saying that further supports our speech.
Question of the week: WHy do you think nonverbal gestures are so much a part of everyday life?
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I think hand gestures add a lot to a conversation or a presentation. It is a way to show how we feel or how we want to express ourselves. It is a way for us to get our point across by having that extra oomph besides using our voice. I think about how some people are mute, not able to speak. They need to find a different way to communicate with people besides using their voice. By using nonverbal signals, such as sign language, mutes are able to communicate with other people.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the shrugging of shoulders, and saying 'I don't know' can be quite confusing. I myself often shrug my shoulders when I don't want to make the decision. I believe that people will say they don't care, when really they do but are being polite or shy. I believe that nonverbal gestures are a big part of everyday life because it helps us express our emotions and who we truly are. Nonverbal gestures help create that special flow in presentations and normal conversation, we need them! :)
ReplyDeleteI think that nonverbal gestures are a frequent part of everyday life, because they show true emotion and hard to fake. People can hide behind words and lies, but not many people can effectively lie through their nonverbal cues. Nonverbal cues are useful, but can often be misread by many people.
ReplyDeleteI think nonverbal gestures are such a part of everyday life because it is the 'honest' way to show how you are really feeling. It is rather hard to hide a face of shocked horror or a roll of the eyes. They happen without thinking. It is the frist thing that gets sent to your brain before you have time to filter. I think the gesture is how you really feel and there is no filter for them but words can always be thought out ahead of time or at least edited.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about in class how nonverbal communication is more effective than verbal communication because it's more believable. Words can be faked but there's too much emotion behind nonverbal gestures to fake them. I think since we (ourselves alone) feel that nonverbal communication is more believable/dependable that something just connects in our brains and we say "Hey, doing this and adding emotion worked for so and so so let's do that too". So is created a complex system of nonverbal gestures that we're using subconsciously to help prove a point and or get our listeners to really believe what we're saying.
ReplyDeletenonverbal communication is a big part of our life because they add to the words. its like the saying, actions speak louder than words. people cant really lie when it comes to body language it is something we do without even thinking about it sometimes. with words people can lie and stuff like that.
ReplyDeleteI think that nonverbal communications are apart of everyday life because it helps us communicate with each other. It helps us show others how we are feeling, with out saying it. It helps to give us boundaries with other people as well. An example of this would be if we were felling uncomfortable or awkward, then we would cross our arms, and step back a little. This would show the other person how we feel. So I think its important because it lets others know almost exactly how we feel, with out saying it.
ReplyDeleteI think nonverbal gestures are so important because lying with your words is one thing, but it's a lot harder to hide your body language. If someone asks if I'm okay and I say yes but my eyes look like I'm about to cry and my shoulders are sagging, someone's going to know I'm not telling the truth. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I think it's true...Seeing someone's body language can say so much more than the words they say.
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