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No gesture has the same meaning!!
there is no 'international language' of gestures. Instead, cultures have developed systems of unique gestures, and it is almost never possible for us to understand intuitively the gestures from another culture.
French gesture for 'I don't believe you' ,
guess what this Iranian gesture means?
No. 1 for me/ Good luck / screw you
Screw you
This gesture teaches an extremely important lesson. This gesture is identical to the American/English gesture for ‘Good Luck to you.’ But it is an obscene (淫猥的) gesture, and an American traveling in Iran would outrage people there if the American performed this gesture. When in another culture or society, we should never 'mirror' a gesture that someone presents to us--without knowing it, we could be deeply offending that person and inviting conflict.
Flight
Flight is the most common response to spatial invasions, and only 2% of the "invaded" people in proxemics experiments ever say anything to those who invade their personal space. The invasion is stressful for the invaded, making an early departure is almost certain.
Definition: (2)
Nonverbal communication involves all nonverbal stimuli in a communication setting that is generated by both the source and his or her use of the environment and that has potential message value for the source or receiver. (Samovar and Porter, 2004)
Who won the game of one-onone basketball?
a. The man on the left b. The man on the right
The man on the right
He seems confident, poised and modest--all qualities that suggest he is the winner of the game.
People turn to believe nonverbal codes when they contradict the verbal ones!
Definition: (1)
“Metacommunication (beyond the usual commmunication), paralinguistics, second-order messages, the silent language, and the hidden dimension of communication.” (Hall, 1959)
a. She will ask them to sit somewhere else.
b. She will stare at the space "invaders" defiantly, but she will not move .
c. She will leave, saying nothing to thepersonal space.
Session 5
Intercultural Non-verbal Communication
What will happen?
Source: /
QUESTION: What?
Every culture has rules about the CORRECT use of space. The proxemic (relating to the study of space) rules are unwritten and never taught-- but they are very powerful
1. Nonverbal Communication
Nonverbal codes refer to communicative messages which are not in word form.
More than 55% messages are communicated nonverbally!