3 Questions
What is the main point of the text?
Non-verbal communication is integrated with verbal communication
What is NOT a misconception about communication mentioned in the text?
That non-verbal expression is the only form of communication
What is NOT true about the resources covered by the term 'non-verbal'?
They are often used to challenge misconceptions
Study Notes
- The term 'non—verbal' is commonly used to describe communicative resources such as gesture, facial movement and tone of voice.
- The term has long been useful in challenging the misconception that words constitute the whole of communication.
- However, a further assumption has sometimes seemed to follow: that 'non—verbal' expression is something unitary, independent of verbal communicating, or classifiable under some single term like 'body language'.
- This is to drastically simplify our actual practice.
- As pointed out by Writers on language and social interaction, gestural and vocal actions are often integrated rather than autonomous, and verbal and non—verbal communication is usually produced in a highly coordinated fashion.
- Proposing a concept of 'non—verbal expression' has led to an unfounded generalisation about this supposedly distinct subject: that it is the medium for expressing emotions and relations rather than conscious thought or ideas.
- Even if this were true, the fact remains that the resources covered by the term 'non—verbal' are diverse and complex in the extreme.
Explore the complexities of non-verbal communication and its integration with verbal communication. Challenge misconceptions and oversimplifications about non-verbal expression and its role in conveying conscious thought and ideas.
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