Non Verbal Communication

In the last few articles, we had an overview about Communication and its various types.

In this article we will deal with non verbal communication which plays a very important role in day to day life and especially when you are being interviewed:

Before proceeding with the actual terms, we all should know some interesting facts about few non verbal acts:😃

• Did you know that while in India or America a "fantastic" or an "ok" sign is demonstrated by forming a circle with your thumb and forefinger 👌, in Tunisia the same symbol means "I will kill you" and in Japan it means "money "?

• Keep your hands out of your pockets:You think that resting your hands in your pockets seems like a chill thing to do, but in some Asian cultures, like Korea and Japan, you'd make people flip the hell out. It's a sign of arrogance and is plain rude.

• Even nodding can trip you up: In some Eastern European countries like Bulgaria, nodding your head "yes" means "no,"whereas shaking your head "no" means "yes." Yes, it's confusing, no?

• In the United States, a red rose is a statement of love 💗, but being “in the red” means one has suffered economic losses, and “seeing red” means one is angry. 

I believe the three important parameters in non verbal communication are KOP

Kinesics: 

Kinesics is the interpretation of body motion communication such as facial expressions and gestures, nonverbal behavior related to movement of any part of the body or the body as a whole. The equivalent popular culture term is body language, a term Ray Birdwhistell, considered the founder of this area of study.

Oculesics:

Oculesics is one form of nonverbal communication, which is the transmission and reception of meaning between communicators without the use of words. It can include the environment around the communicators, the physical attributes or characteristics of the communicators, and the behavior of the communicators.

Paralinguistics:

Paralanguage is a component of meta-communication that may modify or nuance meaning, or convey emotion, such as prosody, pitch, volume, intonation etc. It is sometimes defined as relating to nonphonemic properties only. Paralanguage may be expressed consciously or unconsciously.

Reference for the above 3 terms: Wikipedia