Analyzing Non-Verbal Communication: Types, Aspects, and Impact

This report provides a comprehensive overview of nonverbal communication, defining its essence as communication without words and emphasizing its significance in conveying emotions, attitudes, and information. It details various types of nonverbal cues, including eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, posture, and body language, highlighting their roles in effective communication and cultural variations. The report also explores the aspects of nonverbal communication like proxemics, haptics, and appearance, along with their impact on communication. Furthermore, it examines the relationship between nonverbal communication and speaking and listening, illustrating how nonverbal cues can substitute, complement, and influence verbal messages. The report concludes by emphasizing the impact of nonverbal communication on both speaking and listening, underscoring its role in shaping perceptions and understanding in interactions.

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Contents
What is Nonverbal Communication...........................................................................................2
Importance of nonverbal communication in communication....................................................2
Types of Nonverbal Communication.........................................................................................2
Eye contact.............................................................................................................................2
Facial expressions..................................................................................................................3
Gestures..................................................................................................................................3
Posture and body orientation..................................................................................................4
Body Language......................................................................................................................4
Aspects of non-verbal communication.......................................................................................5
1. Proxemics........................................................................................................................5
2. Haptics.............................................................................................................................5
3. Appearance......................................................................................................................5
Relationship among non-verbal communication and speaking and listening............................6
Impact of non-verbal communication on speaking and listening..............................................6
REFRENCES.............................................................................................................................7

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What is Nonverbal Communication
Non-verbal communication happens deprived of the use of any oral or written word. In its
place of the oral and written words. It trusts in the various forms of non-verbal cues like a
physical actions, colour, signs and etc. It helps in expressing the feeling of a particular
person and it also helps in understanding the attitude and information of regarding a person.
Though there is no use of word. This type of communication can help in effective
communication (Mehrabian, 2017).
Importance of nonverbal communication in communication
It is thought the greatest significant object in communication is what is not said. Non-verbal
communication is something that labels the procedure of shared cues amongst the people; this
is a thing that energies hand in hand with public language, this also comprises eye contact,
facial expressions, postures and etc. Presentation is also one of the best parts of
communication that has been proved as one of the most relevant way to communicate. The
non-verbal communications helps in increasing the trust, clarity and add a lot of interest in
the way one talks. There are various types of communication some of them are mentioned
below
Types of Nonverbal Communication
Eye contact
This is one of the greatest significant forms of relational communication, it assistances in
adaptable the movement of communication and it also builds attention in the other person.

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Moving ahead the eye contact with the audience upsurges the creditability of the speaker.
Also when the teachers make eye contact, it simply states that there is an open flow of
communication, cordiality and creditability.
Facial expressions
Next comes face, this is also an significant communicator in the non-verbal communication.
This is commonly known as the face is an index of the mind. This is what is commonly said
about the facial expressions. The face is a thing that expresses the various types of feelings
and emotions such joy, love and interest and etc.
The facial expressions are indicated trough the mouth the expressions are built among the
area of the face and eyes. This effectively indicates attention and interest. However the
differences in interpretation of facial expressions are different from culture to culture for
example: Smiling is a influential cue that conveys: Friendliness, Happiness, Thus, this simply
means that if a person smiles then the person is more likely to perceive as a person who
would be friendly, warm, and approachable and etc. Smiling is always a thing that is
contagious.
Gestures
If a person nose-dives to gesture when speaking then the person is thought to be boring tiff
and someone who is un-animated. An energetic and a lively style of teaching imprisonment
the consideration of student and make the substantial look more stimulating. It also helps in
facilitating the knowledge and it delivers a little bit of performing. The head signals are a
form of gesture and communicate the optimistic strengthening to the students and also help in
indicating that one is listening. Gestures are basically the actions of arms, legs, hands and
heads. Some writers also state that the gestures are a form of deliberate body movements as
they help in expressing specific planned meaning.

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For example;
A upsurge of hands has a particular sense hello or goodbye and a thumb to form a circle have
the meaning ok
The Alike facial clarifications and expression are some of the gestures that vary crossways
the culture, Expressions, understandings of some gestures also vary crossways cultures.
For example, in the country Europe, levitation thumb is second-hand to transport that
someone has done something outstanding whereas in Bangladesh the similar gesture means
somewhat (idioti, van de Sandt-Koenderman, Duivenvoorden, and Ribbers, 2010).
Posture and body orientation
One can communicate different messages by the way they walk, talk, stand and sit.
For instance: stand-up erect but not rigid and leaning slightly forward helps in
communicating to the students that the person is approachable, receptive as well as friendly
Body Language
The last is the body language; this is one of the greatest recognised forms of non-verbal
communication. Body language is something that helps in conveying the messages and the
meaning. The body language sometimes takes the 2 procedures of comatose movements and
also measured actions
For instance: when a being is uninterested than he/she might stare around the area rather than
to look at the narrator and shift locations regularly. When a being is anxious they might bite
nails or even mash hair. These actions are made usually when a person is unconscious. On the
other hand things like leaning forward to the speaker to talk are a conscious movement of the
body (Stepanikova, Zhang, Wieland, Eleazer, . and Stewart, 2012).

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Aspects of non-verbal communication
1. Proxemics
People always denote to their essential for personal space; this is an significant kind
of nonverbal communication. The quantity of aloofness a person needs and the
amount of space a person perceive depends on some important factors which includes
the things like social norms, cultural expectations and other situational factors. For
instance the amount of personal interplanetary wanted when talking to extra person
usually differs among 18 inches On the other hand, the individual aloofness wanted
when speaking to a troop of people is around 10 to 12 feet (Burgoon, Guerrero, and
Floyd, 2016).
2. Haptics
This is when there is communication through touch; it is another significant behaviour
of non- verbal communication. There has been a considerable expanse of
investigation on the significance of trace in initial childhood. . Through a study it is
demonstrated by the deprived.
3. Appearance
The last part is the appearance. The optimal of colour and clothing, hairdos and other
issues disturbing the appearance are also careful as a means of non-verbal
communication. A Investigation done on colour psychology has established that
diverse colours can suggest diverse moods. Appearance can also change functional
responses, judgments, and clarifications. Just think of all the understated judgments
you quickly sort about somebody based on his or her arrival. These first imitations are
significant, which is why specialists propose that job searchers dress suitably for
interviews with possible employers. (App, McIntosh, Reed, and Hertenstein, 2011).

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Relationship among non-verbal communication and speaking and
listening
Verbal and nonverbal communication goes hand in hand, in any type of communication. The
following are ways in which they are related.
1. Substitution relationship
This is a place where the non-verbal cue is used in the place of a word. For example: if a
teacher is busy with some of her work and if the student approaches him to ask for a
permission then the teacher uses non-verbal sign that is a nod in order to signify the student
that the permission is granted.
2. Complementing relationship
in this place when there is a non- verbal cue the it is to elaborate the verbal or reinforce
message. For example: when someone points towards a direction that has been used to
instruct someone to take it (Pawlikowska, Zhang, Griffiths, van Dalen, and Vleuten, 2012).
Impact of non-verbal communication on speaking and listening
The non-verbal communication impacts speaking and listening in various ways. Some times
what a person speaks does not go along with a person’s non-verbal signals. For example: if a
person says that he/she is happy, it is always considered that a person has a smiling face if
happy. However in this case if a person does not depicts the same facial expressions as being
a happy person he/ she will be considered to be lying. This is a way in which non-verbal
communication impacts speaking and listening (Burgoon, Guerrero, and Manusov, 2011).

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