Nonverbal And Verbal Communication With My Brother: Case Study

Introduction Families are the most important aspect of life, without a family to call your own is a shame. A family gives everyone their own specific click and people who will always care about them. According to McCornack (2013) a family is define as a network of people who share their lives over long periods of time and are bound by marriage, blood, or commitment; who consider themselves as family; and who share a significant history and anticipated future of functioning in a family relationship. From this definition of family, the person that fits the build of family the most to me is a brother. I personally have a brother and it is one of the greatest blessings on Earth. So I am asking you, do you have a brother? Because if you do not

Nonverbal communication is defined by McCornack (2013) as intentional or unintentional transmission of meaning through an individual’s non-spoken physical and behavioral cues, while verbal communication is defined as an exchange of spoken or written language with others during interactions. In my relationship with my brother, nonverbal and verbal communications are key because we feed off each other’s reactions and responses. According to Fowler (2009), who conducted a study about how siblings communicate in an interpersonal relationship, but also why they communicate the way they do. His findings confirmed, my personal relationship, that people respond to certain things depending upon how they react or what context they are, exactly like my relationship with my brother. Two of the major concepts that came out of this study were different types of siblings (gender) and different age groups differ in what they need out of a sibling relationship. Even though I only have one sibling and it is a boy, over the years my brother and me have evolved from just being there for each other physically to also being there for each other mentally and emotionally. Verbal communication is incredibly vital in making and sustaining any relationship, however, due to the familiarity and immeasurable knowledge of each other’s habits and aggravations, nonverbal communication tends to be more effective for my sibling