Oral Communication: Skills, Choices, and Consequences Chapter 4

kinesics

Body movement

Emblems

Nonverbal gestures that have a direct verbal translation

Illustrators

Non-verbals used to enhance the understanding of a message.

Affect Displays

facial muscle movements used to convey meaning

Regulators

movements that direct the conversation

Adaptors

self-touching behaviors

chronemics

the study of the way that individuals and cultures use time

Monochronic cultures

Structure time into discrete units

Polychronic Cultures

time is unstructured and informal

Olfactics

smell communication

haptics

touch communication

paralanguage

vocal techniques used to emphasize and give meaning to words

Proxemics

space communication

Territoriality

imaginary ownership of a particular space

artifacts

objects we select to represent our identity

personal artifacts

clothing, shoes, hairstyle, jewelry, glasses, adornments

physical artifacts

furniture, artwork, rugs

Nonverbal communication

communication that radiates from all the senses but does not include the use of verbal symbols