To what some people read in my previous post, I was saying there that it was ... what's the right word ... honestly, I thought that the idea that people had came up with theories for Communication was ridiculous and even shocking. I now take back what I said. Learning more about the topic I experienced a paradigm shift
I realized that just like any everyday object or occurrence, Communication too also had it's origins, and explanations. In every conversation we have, all aspects in it have their own label or names. One interesting thing is this "Field-of-experience", which is the experience we bring in to every conversation we have. Experiences, which may be from past conversations or rather things we talk about with another person (a.k.a "Interests/hobbies/etc.) . Or may be, how we should react to different conversations with different people, an example is whether or not we should ask more personal questions to someone or not. In this so-called "field-of-experience", if we had bad experiences in the past regarding asking personal questions then the ideal thing to do is not to ask about them. Before we started studying "Communication", obviously we all know this but not their technical terms which I just found really amazing.
It's like during highschool and elementary, before we even knew the term "Jejemon", we couldn't brand these kinds of people but when the term came out, it felt really exhilarating to finally have a label for these kinds of people. Same thing with what we learned during the week, every object in communicating with someone has a label.
Moving on to non verbal codes, when I greet someone I either "nod" my head or wave my hand and also give the occasional high-five. Earlier this day, I was with my girlfriend and because she wasn't able to go earlier than expected I saw her stomp her feet, flail her hands then she hit my arm. Non verbal coding is indeed everywhere (and it's also painful sometimes), we see it, we do it, but we don't know that we're exactly doing it because it's kind of automatic. I always though that non verbal codes were only hand signals but turns out it wasn't limited to that.
I'm thinking of something though, I'm not sure if it's a non verbal signal though. I'll give you a hint, this is only applicable to guys. When you see a hot/sexy girl, and you feel "something" *wink* *wink*
So here are some more examples of non-verbal codes :
"The okay sign"
"The 'ROCK!' sign"
This is pretty self explanatory
Btw, that's not my hand.
Anyway, this ends my blog entry. Because of that paradigm shift, I had more appreciation for the subject. I really find it fun and interesting to learn new things that we see and experience in our everyday lives.
PS. You may notice that this entry is kind of all messed up. I know that. Due to lack of preparation, I wasn't able to organize my thoughts very well. I'll make up for it next week. I swear.
Credits to PHOTOBUCKET for the images. :)
What an interesting view :)
TumugonBurahinThe idea of having a brand for the things we sort of already know. It is fun knowing that all of these things that we don't notice or the things we encounter everyday have specific names. What comes with the knowledge of existence of such terms comes the ability to analyze and be critical of the things that happen in communication. I think being able to apply this "terms" is what makes it an actual enjoyable experience.
As said during lectures that communication is always existing but we never really notice it if we do not think about it.Like what you said communication can be non-verbal and can be so natural to us that it all seems to be automatic.
TumugonBurahinI like this blog :)) You do not seem to be discrete in your entries ahaha.
The way I see it, theorists use labels and terms to facilitate effective communication of ideas and propositions. Otherwise, theorists would present their arguments in a long-winded, excruciatingly verbose manner. And we don't want that, do we?
TumugonBurahinBut I'm glad you had that paradigm shift. Looking forward to your future posts.