NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION

Non-verbal communication is extremely important in the expression or exclamation of feelings and emotions; and, at the time of making signs or giving cues in speech. The main primary means of communication is shown by grunts, gestures and other waving signs which are patterned, specifically, on the current affair we are just experiencing. These signs are differentiated banking on the culture. Cross-culturally speaking, non-verbal is made up of 93% of our everyday communication production, this means that our body language and tone of voice are responsable for conveying a great deal of our message and thinking. Non-verbal communication has got other correlative characteristics, such as active listening, eyes contact, attentiveness, distracting habits, proximity, haptics, intonation, rythm, and even dressing.

FEATURES OF THE SPOKEN LANGUAGE

According to Brown (2007, pp. 326-327) notes additional features of the spoken language that make a big difference between writing and speaking and that they all are really hard for English students to learn.

     CLUSTERING: Fluent speakers group words together rather than uttering each word.

This consists of phonological processes and Stress patterns implied into the language. For example: This happens in Referential Stress (Numbers, affixes, etc.), Differential Stress (Noun/Verb & Adjective/Verb), Differential Stress (Noun Compound), Phonological Processes: Assimilation (Progressive, Regressive, Coalescent, and Gemination), Dissimilation (Haplology) and Linking processes.

        REDUCED FORMS: Speakers use contractions, elisions, and reduced vowels. For example: This tends to happen when a phonological process called Deletion appears.

        PERFORMANCE VARIABLES: The speaker is permitted to pause and hesitate, using filler words and expressions such as uh, you know, like…

This supplies a more natural speech for users to sound more like a native speaker.

          COLLOQUIAL SPEECH: Informal terms are permitted and common.

Idioms, Slang and informal expressions are COOL.

        RATE OF DELIVERY: The speaker controls the rate of delivery for the listener; a reader can read at his or her own pace.

    STRESS, RHYTHM, AND INTONATION: Rhythmic and intonation patterns can be important in conveying meaning in spoken language.

Spoken language features from englishwithmrsmith

STYLES AND REGISTERS AND HOW RECOGNITION OF COMMUNICATION INFLUENCES ON BEHAVIOUR

     Everything that is produced non-verbally and randomly, the cues, speech in action, and word choice can change to corporate status for each being. Every single word and its pronunciation, how a written piece of paper and spoken information are going to be perceived, is going to bank on the Social Environment or conversational setting. We as communicators can transform significantly our speech patterns. The styles implied in current conversation are prone to differ across the world and culturally. A very good example could be a professor that is used to asking questions about any specific topic to a student that is from another culture and that person tends to answer up to it looking down upon him saying Yes or No, whereas a student from Venezuela tends to look up to the professor asking that question or arise his eyes to keep eye contact with him. This interaction can change depending on where you live and the social behaviour that that society has.

      Register is almost the same, but it involves how we see speech and how we make use of it in the real world. Everything is going to be determined by the degree of formality and the relationship among the people that generate the talking. The level of vocabulary and production of written language that I do at university is academic and the one given at home is less polite or more informal, I focus on using idioms, slang and other kinds of phrases that make me feel more comfortable and reliable on self-confidence, that is, if I make a mistake, who cares? You´ve got listeners or your fellow peers to have a heart to heart talk, you commonly use an easy way of speaking. Except that, when you are fed up with everybody, you tell each one of them words rudely. Understanding and being aware of REGISTER AND THE STYLES permitted in time will help students clear their minds up in regard to the appropriateness of how, when, where and with whom about what topic to treat.

Written by Eduardo Becerrit.

WHAT IS FACE FOR CULTURE?

      The real interpretation of What face is a worldwide paradigm and even an important element of our identification. This can be referred to the image of ourselves publicly. Each one of us has an important dominant role in communicating with others in everyday life. The process of FACE is called in certain cultures FACEWORK. The behaviour a person uses to keep up with a postitive or well-received image influences the way of that role on oral communication. A person from the USA could use a facial expression or make a sign with its face that for that culture can be said as if that person agrees to plan. for example, The person from the American culture has not got the saving face, but it makes use of a more direct sign and gets to the point. Perhaps, you may hear of the nodding face which is the one that students commonly use when they say when all of them admit they understood the class. Moreover, they did not. It is important to affirmatively nod the face for certain cultures as a sort of saving face to maintain the cordiality and respect, even though, they did not undertand anything and why they did so. This can make us have respect for the face of conversational partners. FACEWORK can change and differ from culture to culture, and what is useful for one, can be useless for the other. We use facework to protect us from vulnerability according to emotions or feelings towards other people. 

Written by Eduardo Becerrit.