...Demonstrative Communication Communication is the process of transmitting information from one person to the next by acknowledging the sender’s intent,comprehending the context of the message, and acting upon it to be able to create a shared understanding. Communication is a process by which information exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior. Communication is an exchange of information via verbal or written messages, and it is the process of sending and receiving messages (Communication, 2011; Cheesebro, O'Connor, and Rios, 2010). By using this premise, the communication process is often affected by several barriers that will influence the feedback of the message flow thus the decoding back to the sender after send by the receiver. These barriers can be anything from speaking too fast, to no understanding the language spoken by any of the parties involve in the communication. The use of proper grammar and writing rules, can also interfere in the perception of the receiver and the feedback may not be the one expected by the original sender. As it is explained by Manero (2014), “While there are approximately 6,800 languages in the world, people don't just communicate using "words." It is estimated that only seven percent of communication is composed of words, 38 percent is tone of voice, while 55 percent is physiology. This 93 percent is known as demonstrative communication, or nonverbal communication.” Therefore...
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...In many aspects of life including work, study and everyday personal life the skill of effective communication is an asset. As an early childhood educator effective communication is paramount. The essay will examine what effective communication is, and how and why it is important for an early childhood educator to possess this skill. Grellier & Goerke (2010) describes effective communication as consisting of speaking clear and concise with the correct use of tone, the ability to give and receive feedback productively, active listening, non-verbal communication such as gestures, body language and eye contact. Speech is a complex process that is an important component in communication, speech is the outcome of sounds made in the voice box and stung together to make intelligible words. Without the appropriate use of tone, pitch, volume and speed of delivery, the impact of what is trying to be said will be greatly affected (Verderber, Verderber, & Sellnow, 2007). A speaker should be engaging, passionate and animated whilst remaining calm and collected. The tome of a speaker should remain conversational, so as to keep listeners attention and avoid the boredom of listeners. Bleile (2004) explained that speech is the foundation of language. Approximately 60% of brain growth occurs during the first few years of life, during this time the brain is shaped by children’s environment. Up to this point in a child’s life, parents have been the primary source of sounds and expressions...
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...I have passed numerous Spanish classes pondering why preceding generations had not already successfully created a universal language. A linguistic revolution would effectively eliminate the inconvenient and time consuming struggle to understand across countries, races, and languages that has cursed mankind since, according to the book of Genesis, the Tower of Babel. If language is the key to communication, why not eliminate superfluous language all together? However, language transcended its role as mere communication eons ago. It has evolved into an art, where choice words can be painstakingly chosen, as Van Gogh had selected specific shades of blues for his canvas, and molded together into sentences and rhetoric that can leave lasting impressions...
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...Role Of Language in Knowing Language is defined as anybody who can be written, spoken shown or otherwise communicated between people. Thus it is obvious that it is significant in all areas of knowledge, as well as balanced. Making it absolutely necessary in learning. I believe language is the most important out of the four ways of knowing due to its influence on the areas of knowledge. It is also significant in each area because it plays a large role for the basic awareness of each area. The Austrian-British philosopher Ludvig Wittgenstein even says that "the limits of language are the limits of knowledge". According to Wittgenstein, "What can be thought clearly," he says "can also be said clearly." Language is the greatest factor on which most of the human activities depend. This can explain how significant language's role is, although it is different, yet equally important in each area. Without any form of language, any cooperation and communication would be almost, if not totally impossible. Since equality cannot be measured in this case, I will explain my thesis in the following manner: I will clarify the importance of language by explaining its role in each category. As well as explaining how the other ways of knowing are not as significant in the areas of knowledge but it is included as my counter claim. The issues concerning language and knowledge call for conscious scrutiny in order to recognize its influence on thought and behaviour. In the Arts, for instance, language...
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...and benefits of e-commerce to the business is central towards the evaluation of its necessity. The evaluation process requires an entrepreneur to undertake a SWOT analysis in order to understand the advantages and disadvantages of e-commerce. The e-commerce industry is experiencing a variety of issues that range from culture, trust, language, infrastructure, and the government regulations. Addressing these issues is central to the viability and feasibility of the business in the market. Designing of a mechanism of addressing the issues that relate to the regulations governing the operation of businesses is necessary. The online crimes also present a major challenge for most of the businesses. Therefore, this paper elucidates strategies and operations that help in the analysis and addressing various issues that relate to the e-commerce industry. Question 1 The SWOT analysis is a major tool that can be used in the evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of engaging in e-commerce. Strengths A major strength is the expansion of the global market commanded by the store. It expands the geographic retail market for the clothes stores beyond the Jersey Shore boardwalk to areas all over the world. Another strength is the time-saving potential of e-commerce both for the store and the customers. It reduces the physical movement through fast internet transactions. Lastly, the e-commerce provides the customers the opportunity to compare prices and potentiate their choice of a...
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...users (Verheijen). Belying the findings of these studies, however, is the viewpoint among older generation researchers and academicians that text messaging has negative correlations to improving learning skills among users. They argue that text messaging has contributed detrimental implications on learners as opposed to its emphasized importance by recent researchers. They present counterarguments justifying their disapproval of the importance of text messaging on learning. They cite the negative implications of technology on learners as justification to their opposing viewpoints to the debate while attributing the effect of text messaging. Although older generation researchers and academicians argue that technological developments in communication have detrimental implications on the youth and future generations, it is justifiable that text messaging has a positive influence on literacy levels by encouraging...
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...Addictive? What Is Transactional Analysis? What does "Falling in Love" Mean? What is the Difference Between Infatuation and Love? What is Puppy Love? Which Brain Chemicals Underlie the Experience of Romantic Love? What are Love Languages? Dr. Gary Chapman, a Christian family counselor and author, has developed a relationship-building program called the 5 love languages. Love languages are defined as verbal and non-verbal communications between couples which improve the mental and physical well-being of both partners. These mutual expressions and actions help to build up a nurturing environment in which couples can improve both their emotional and physical intimacy levels. The first of the five love languages includes words of affirmation. These words go far beyond a perfunctory "I love you" ritual, and include specific recognition of a partner's contributions to the relationship or the household or a career. The point of the exercise is to provide enough positive affirmation of a partner's self-worth to motivate that person towards even more personal growth. By telling a partner or friend or co-worker how much you appreciate his or her efforts, you are speaking in a language he or she can understand. The second of the five love languages involves spending quality time with a loved one. This means setting aside a meaningful amount of personal time in which the friend or partner receives your complete and undivided attention. The idea is to have substantial conversations...
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...Intercultural Communication with Bilingualism (跨文化传播、双语形象与多元文化主义：以日本双语教学为例) 研 究 生： 阿夏 指导教师： 安然 学 号： 201122800213 学 院： 新闻与传播学院 专 业： 传播学 华南理工大学研究生院 二〇一二年七月 Abstract The concept of "bilingualism" (two-, multilingualism) has become a symbol of the XXI century. Bilingualism is a way of thinking, perception of the world, self-identity. Open borders within the Schengen Zone, simplified procedure of obtaining temporary visas due to lack of human resources within the countries, etc. caused the significant increase of the immigration processes. Moving from one country to another, people are introducing traditions, lifestyle and language of the country of origin to the new ground. (Intensive processes of integration taking place in modern global community, could be characterized as comprehensive and multifaceted, and can be analyzed from different perspectives, theoretical frameworks and approaches. It should be noted that these processes determine the complex, multifaceted problems, among which there is a multilingualism, the most common variant of it - bilingualism. ) Bilingual education is a form of education in which information is presented to the students in two (or more) language (Bilingual education). English has been playing a central role in the cross-cultural communication as the common international language for linking people with different native languages. For children...
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...theories from The Terminal 1.High context vs low context in communication Daily communication includes verbal communication and nonverbal communication. Verbal communication is more common in low-context culture while nonverbal communication is more common in high-context culture. Edward Hall raised the concept of high context and low context in the book beyond culture. Context is the the commons and background knowledge that needs to be known and shared before effective communication between people. The more shared background knowledge is, the more commons there are. In detail, in communication in high-context culture, most of the information exists in the physical environment, or internalized in the individual body, and rarely exists in the encoding of the transmission of information. In communication in the low-context culture, a good amount of information exists in languages with clear encoding. For example: Navorski can only speak very limited English and have big problems communicating with Americans, which can be seen from the communication process in the beginning of the movie when Thurman and Frank Dixon asked him questions and he always gave an irrelevant answer. At the beginning, he could only use body gestures to communicate. However, North American is low-context culture while Bulgaria I suppose belongs to high context culture. Americans would feel it difficult to decode Bulgarian’s encoding, while language barrier makes Bulgarian’s fail in encoding information expected...
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...Tonia Murray Interpersonal Communication July 1, 2013 Reflection Paper 4 After viewing the assigned You Tube video titled, “History Channel Secrets of Body Language” it was encouraged to look beyond words because body language tells it all. Big ideas highlighted in the video stressed this point. The video states body movement composes ninety-three percent of communication and only seven percent of communication derives from words. The video expressed a walk can convey power or a simple gesture can hide a lie, meaning body language can betray us. It was also expressed in the video that when a person is under public pressure and scrutiny while speaking their gestures, facial expressions and body movements, even subtle movements can be used to persuade mass communication. This response can establish power in unconventional manners without people being directly aware. The main points of the video highlighted that communication is conveyed through body movements, facial expression and their raising or lowering of their voice to undercover hidden secret messages. In reflecting on how this relates to my personal life. I have experienced the need to maintain a stoic disposition while working with clients. My body language remained focused and constant as I knew it the impact it could have on clients and people with whom I engage. I also watched this dynamic unfold in the courtroom and in trial hearing, attorneys had to demonstrate little or no reaction to verdicts...
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...OBSCURITY AS NOISE IN THE LITERARY CHANNEL OF COMMUNICATION: THE WRITER AND THE QUESTION OF IMMORTALITY CALLER: Hello, can hear me? RECEIVER: Hello, who is on the line, Hello…Hello… Hello…I..I… can’t hear you, there is a whole lot of Noise where you are, please move away from that Place. CALLER: (Moves away from the noisy area) an you hear me Now? RECEIVER: (smiling) Yes!!! Immortality is the essence of existence, It is its soul. It is that which death fears. Immortality is that which transcends the ends. He gave it to he who would Live beyond the end. Nwokedi Nwa Nwokedi 19/5/06 You may be wondering if this is another reading of a dramatic text or a poetic rendition. It is neither of the two, it is simply the introduction to what you may for paucity of nomenclature, call an essay. For me this dialectic or polemic is a critical arousal aimed at arousing our scholastic consciousness so that we can reason together. My brothers and sisters in the ”Literary Evangelistic Mission Incorporated”, “come let us reason together”. Three issues shall be of principal concern and interest to us in this arousal of critical thinking. They are (1) Obscurity (2) Noise and (3) Immortality. It is within this triangle that we shall conduct our creative reasoning and “deliverance” session. Our sole aim being to decipher and bring to everybody’s attention, that which the writer must do for him and his work to cloth themselves...
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...Oftentimes “language” comes to mind when thinking of communication, but one very intriguing aspect of communication is usually overlooked, Nonverbal communication (NVC). NVC can be defined as “the transfer and exchange of messages in any and all modalities that do not involve words” (Matsumoto, Frank, & Hwang, 2013, p. 4). NVC is all around us, and more often than not so subtle it is not even noticed. Studies have shown, NVC carries between 63 and 95 percent more impact than spoken words (Anonymous, 2013). It could be the wrinkle of a nose or a smirk. Learning how to interpret NVC can be an invaluable skill. Humans are programmed to communicate through voice, but knowing how to interpret NVC signals also cues one in to what is being said without words. Learning how to interpret the signals given off by others helps to understand the signals our own bodies are putting out, as much as possible of course. There are NVC signals that involuntarily, or subconsciously, are sent out. Some examples are eye movement during a face-to-face interaction, the jewelry one wears, or the natural odor one carries; all of which are considered being involuntary. NVC is not normally universal; it can vary from place to place, or culture to culture. Nonverbal communication is based on the fact that communication itself can take place without the use of words, and not only can it take place but it can also be very effective. According to Ekman & Friesen, there are six ways in which verbal...
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...Communication is formed by people in everywhere at any time. If we live in a community, communication is something that we cannot avoid in our whole life. However, even though we practice communication all the time, miscommunication still happens all the time especially when people have different culture. According to Yu Xu, and Ruth Davidhizar, the authors of Journal of Nursing Education, "Culture is communication and communication is culture". Our communication is always affected by the problem of culture intelligence including backgrounds, habits of communication and languages, and all these factors cause miscommunication. First, different backgrounds are definitely a main issue that affects communication. Background means your family and your experience of education, living conditions. Since all countries have their own living style, religion and beliefs, people who are from different countries might have extremely different backgrounds. We might learn and understand things in different ways; therefore, battle might be easily formed when we do not know each other very well. According to Kaplan, S., and Cunningham, C., the author of Eight Quick Tips for Improving Global Cross-Cultural Communications, Different backgrounds might affect our life style. If we live in a same house with people from different country, different living styles may cause miscommunication. Referring to FitzGerald, Helen Gay, authors of Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education, “If people...
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...Bilingual Education Introduction Communication is a powerful tool in every setting that involves human interaction. The importance of bilingualism is felt when there are communication barriers orchestrated by multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism. The effect of communication barrier is more profound in the learning environment. This is reflected in the way it incapacitates understanding of the course contents. This paper will talk about bilingual education and the milieu in which it is juxtaposed. Bilingual education The logic behind bilingual education is the use of students’ native language in learning while at the same time learning English. Bilingual students have an added advantage in regard to understanding materials when two different languages are being used in the classroom. The increasing language and cultural diversity have necessitated the need for bilingual education which improve learning (Harris para 13). Such education enables students to diversify their learning since they are not confined within one language. Bilingual education enables inclusiveness in the classroom and total participation from the students/teachers can code switch and code mix to enhance understanding and communication. In the absence of bilingual education, other alternatives are sought in order to accommodate monolingual students and those who cannot understand and speak English fluently. Such options include using two different languages at the same time in class and translating while...
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...is used as international language in communication, science, business, aviation, entertainment, diplomacy and in different other ways. English has spread beyond the original English isles starting with the growth of British Empire. The language however gained a boost after the colonization of North American and the consequent rise of United States to the most influential nation in the world. Since the end of the World War II, the use of English in the world has been catapulted by the increased dominance of United States and Britain in world affairs especially in the International organizations like United Nations We teach a skill, and a subject, just like any other skill and subject. we do serve as cultural informants to students as they try to get their bearings in a new country. They want to know what's going on and why, so they can make their own choices about how to fit it. This is a service, not imperialism. Knowledge of English has become a basic requirement in different fields, occupation and professions like Medicine, computing and many others (Bishop and Philips, 2006). This use of English in education and economic areas can be traced to the era of industrial revolution in Britain and the consequent industrial revolution that led to a number of inventions. As a way of spreading the technological invention to the rest of the world, English was adopted as a means of communication and henceforth it has become an important part communication in the world. Today, more...
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