Paralanguage

PARALANGUAGE. NON VERBAL LANGUAGE. 75% of the information we obtain in our interactions comes from non verbal language.

There are many Sciences that study the meaning of those movements:

1__. PROXEMICS__

Study the way people construct and manage “microspace” the distance

between themselves and others in ordinary daily life. We get closed to people or

get away from them. It gives us the clues to interpret our feeling towards the

others

Through proxemics we know the existence of the CONFORT ZONE

• Intimate

• Good friends

• Acquaintances

• General public

2. __KINETICS__

Study the nonverbal coding systems of body activity as related to human

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">communication

__<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">3. SEMIOTICS __

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">It’s the science that seeks to understand how Natural or constructed signs and

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">symbols function as a communication medium

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Through semiotics we could differentiate SIGNS

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">• Units of nonverbal communication

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">• Gestures

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">• Movements

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">• Face expression

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">• Any movement that convey information.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">from CUE/s

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">• Nonverbal signs used to prompt an event, behaviour or experience or SIGNAL

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">• Used to inform as to what will happen, a hint or warning.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">T <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">HE MOST COMMON NONVERBAL SIGNS ARE: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Emblems

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Gestures with precise meaning known by a culture

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Illustrators

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Gestrures that enhance verbal messages.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Adaptors

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Help a person adapt release tension, also called “manipulators”. Hands are

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">used vey often ( scratch, touch, smood..)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Regulators

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Used to regulate, manage or control a conversation.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Turn taking, control the conversation

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Affect displayers

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Facial expressions showing emotions

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Micro-expressions

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">But we also use sounds associated to words to convey meaning. Those sounds

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">work on their own, even if we do not understand the words/ sentences those

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">associated sounds will help us to create the context, imagine what the speaker

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">want to say and predict a future response. This is known as PARALANGUAGE.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The most common ones are: **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Qualifiers

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">volume, inflection, pitch, pacing, tone, melodiousness.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Characterizers

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">sounds, sights, mumbling, groans, whines, yawning, laughing, cryings ( show

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">character, emotions, and sensations)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Segregates

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #6b1969; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Fillers in speech, Pauses, silence or sounds: Oh! Ah-ah!, like-a, sh, Uhuh!..