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NON-VERBAL LANGUAGE

75% of the information was obtained in our interactions come from non-verbal language.

There are many sciences that study the meaning of those movements:


 * 1. Proxemics **

Study the way people construct and manage the distance between themselves and others in ordinary daily life. Proxemics the existence of the confort zone:
 * Intimate
 * Good friends
 * Acquaintances
 * General public

Study the nonverbal coding systems of body activity.
 * 2. Kinetics **

It’s the science that seeks to understand how Natural or constructed signs and symbols function as a communication medium. Through semiotics we could differentiate signs:
 * 3. Semiotics **


 * Units of nonverbal communication
 * Gestures
 * Movements
 * Face expression
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Any movement that convey information.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Sings –** Not all are cue´s or signal´s, but all cue´s or signal are signs.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Cue´s –** Non-verbal signs used to prompt an event, behavior or experience (used to cause a reaction in other person).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**SIGNAL -** Used to inform as to what will happen, a hint or warning (has a lot of cultural background). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Each culture has signs to express different things. We can´t use the same symbols for all cultures, because they may have different signs.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Common nonverbal signs: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Emblems -** Gestures with precise meaning.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Illustrators -** Gestures that enhance verbal messages.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Adaptors -** Help a person adapt release tension.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Regulators -** Used to regulate, manage or control a conversation.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Affect displayers -** Facial expressions showing emotions.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">But we also use sounds associated to words to convey meaning. Those sounds work on their own, even if we do not understand the words/sentences those associated sounds will help us to create the context, imagine what the speaker want to say and predict a future response. This is known as **paralanguage**, and the most common are:


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Qualifiers
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Characterizers
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Segregates

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">We conclude that the paralanguage is how we say things with different intonations.

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