Comm 250 Term Research Project

1. Non-Textual
Communication
Nancy Gaytan
http://scienceillustrated.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/music.jpg

2. Communication through
Technology
...is predominantly textual
 Textual communication (typing) is the primary
method of communication online, just like
speech is the primary form of face to face
communication
 Web searches, articles, IMs, Facebook,
Wikipedia, chatrooms, recipes, e-mail, blog
posts, etc. All of them are heavily based in text.

3. Nonverbal
Music
Dance
YouTube and Skype
http://www.mytechexperts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/skype-logo1.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/yt/brand/media/image/YouTube-logo-full_color.png

4. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-
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on.jpg

5. Nonverbal Communication
Types
• Kinesics: facial expression, body motion,
gestures
• Tactilism: Behavior and touch
• Paralanguage: Stress, pitch, quality and
intonation of voice
• Proxemics: Space and distance (Knott, Nonverbal
Communication During Early Childhood)

6. • Artifacts: Clothing, cosmetics, etc.
• Environmental factors: (Do you really
need a definition for this?) Factors,
traits, objects that make up and
contribute to an environment
(Knott, Nonverbal Communication During Early Childhood)
Nonverbal Communication
Types

7. Nonverbal Communication is one of the
largest contributing factors in children’s
development of linguistic skills and
understanding.
After childhood, nonverbal communication
constantly shapes our self-expression and
understanding of others.
Significance

8. ● Creates more personal connections
● Can reveal true feelings
● Are learned and expressed by everyone
● Have different meanings by culture
Nonverbal Communication also

9. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2y
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWF
PHW7BCCI
Learning About Nonverbal
Communication

10. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/com https://www.smu.edu/~/media/Site/Meadows/Dolphin/Sectio

11. Dance
● Dance is kinesthetic movement, and is thereby
a form of communication
● Different motions may be representative of
different emotions
● Different movements combine to create
phrases in dance. Phrases in dance are similar
to sentences in speech.

12. ● While specific or vague emotions may be
conveyed through the movement, the observer
may experience different emotions. This
miscommunication is a normal part of
communication through dance.
Dance

13. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBsIl
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Dance as Communication

14. http://w8themes.com/wp-
content/uploads/2013/08/Musical-

15. Music Speaks
• Music incorporates language to convey
messages
• Familiarity with music elicits stronger
emotional responses; music repeats in refrains
• Music develops stronger meaning with
repeated listening (Hellmuth Margulis)
• The repetition in music elicits stronger
emotional responses than communication
through direct speech

16. • The composer expresses one set of
emotion and one message through the
music’s composition
• The musician expresses a different set of
expression in the way in which they play
the music; similar to intonation in words,
music’s pitch, tone, sound,volume, etc,
affect how the sound is interpreted.
Music in two parts:

17. Conveying Emotion through
Music
Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce3o-laUiwU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJMwWX8WX3o

18. • Textless communication
 Vision impaired persons can still listen to audio
recordings of novels online, and communicate
through music
 The Hearing impaired can still communicate
through dance using CMC
o They can also still enjoy online comics! (See next
slide)
Emancipatory Effect

19. Wordless Comics
• http://www.artemisdraws.com/snackbar/snackbarindex.
html
• http://espanol4siempre.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/im
gsrv-gocomics-com1.gif?w=565

20. Worded Comics
• http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-
B4m56LlW_Hk/UZAX5QH0mCI/AAAAAAAAKdU/XUTu
ZGYsiGQ/s1600/182222_592982867387374_98866464
7_n.jpg
• http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d417153ef01
053642b36a970b-800wi

21. Necessary Inclusion?
• Textual vs. Non-textual communication
crossover:
 Comics with text
 Lyric videos
 YouTube comments section
 Videos labeled and found using words
 Skype’s IM function
 Cultural impact on communction

22. • Studying non-textual alone misses a lot of
the impact that jointly textual and non-
textual communication has on
communication.

23. Audio-Visual Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMkYlIA7mgw
Mixed Methods of
Communication

24. Why Study This?
Youtube and Skype video: Allow for contact
with people all over the world. Culture and
nature are inseparable (Knott, Nonverbal Communication: Where
Nature Meets Culture) and since these two factors
contribute to behavior, through Non-textual
CMC, cultures will influence future
communication.

25. Importance of Non-Textual
Study
Furthermore, since non-textual
communication is equally as significant to
CMC non-verbal communication is to
face-to-face speech, this field of study is
important in shaping CMC and should be
further examined in a technological
context.

26. Works Cited
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