Culture And Nonverbal Communication

Nonverbal communication is a type of communication, when people between each other send and receive mostly visual cues. Most of the people think that body language, also know as kinesics is the same as nonverbal communication, but it isn`t. Nonverbal communication is much more then body language, in this category there are also involved the other senses, for example the use of voice, touch, distance, and we can put here both physical environments and appearance (Andersen Peter, 2007). Eye contact is considered one of the most important connections between two people, scientifically called oculesics, this is usually the combined action of talking and listening. It has a big importance how frequent we blink, how our pupils dialate. It sound strange

Written texts can also have nonverbal elements such as handwriting style, spatial arrangement of words, or physical layout. The learning of nonverbal communication is started from a very early age, when children`s social-emotional communication is forming, this is much more intense when they are becoming verbal communicators, they will look at nonverbal signs more subconsciously. We shouldn`t forget to mention the role of culture. Culture can play an important role in nonverbal communication, as many cultures as many different nonverbal signs. In some cultures some nonverbal signs mean something else, so it is important to also learn about somebodies culture before judging him. These cultural values are learnt at a yound age (Weiten&Hammer, 2009). In the study of nonverbal communications, the limbic brain is where the action is, also amygdala is responsible for people`s behavior. This part of the brain that reacts to the outer stimulus reflexively and very quickly, this goes usually subconsciously and in real time. Nonverbal communication represents 2/3 of all

Clothes can tell a lot of things about a persons`s personality, background and financial status, and the response of others. Clothing can also demonstrate their culture, mood, level of confidence, interests, age, authority, values. Gestures can be made with the hands, arms or body, and also with the head, face, eyes, for instance nodding and rolling the eyes. The importance of facial expressions is high, not professional nonverbal sign decoders, usual people, tend to check mostly somebodies face, because they don`t know which is the most honest part of the body, I will talk about this in detail later. Face has a lot of muscles, which are controlling mouth, lips, eyes, nose, forehead, jaw. Humans are capable to do more than 10.000 different facial expressions, for example happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, shame, anguish, these are usually recognised by most of us, but there are also others which are not so frequently used and not so frequently noticed (Freitas-Magalhães, 2006). Negative emotions are seen on somebodies face when there is tension in the muscles: tightening of jaw muscles, furrowing of forehead, squinting eyes, or making the lips seemingly