What do you mean by that face?

I have learnt that nonverbal communication is when we communicate with others by using other way round than just using words as a medium to communicate with others to generate the meaning. Maybe we didn’t realize that in daily life we are not using 100% words to communicate and to send messages to one another. Verbal and nonverbal communication can relate with each other and it works very very well for verbal communication to be more effective and bring benefits in addition for nonverbal communication. Repetition is mostly occurs during presentation when we having problem though the slides that the speaker talking about and start to pointing out at the speaker what we don’t understand through the slides that he just presented. This action shows how repetition occurs very well and only happens when the message is sent verbally and nonverbally at the same time. Substitution is when we are communicating with each other by substitute our words with action such as fingers, eyes or tongue. In most cases, by using substitution, this message is fairly clear and easy to understand by most people and doesn’t need any verbal communication instead.

In the class sessions, Miss Allison had given each of our group tasks to show and make everyone understand by emblems, illustrators and adaptors. We were divided by three groups and each of us had to do different action on how these three categories works. Emblems are nonverbal movements that are substitute by words and phrases, it only works in actions without any words include. This action is mostly using in daily life and easy to understand without using words as a medium to communicate. Illustrators is when nonverbal action and verbal action being combined to do some action to send messages to other people. This is being used by small kids when they’re saying that they’re hungry when it comes with action and words. Adaptors is when nonverbal movements that we might think it is okay to do in public but it is only practical to do in private, especially we get nervous of something and started to do something to make we feel calm and better.

 By - Syafenaez Wahid