Cuyamaca College Use of Nonverbal Communication Discussion

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Chapter 5: Identify two specific personal examples of times when choice of language led to positive or negative results in your own interpersonal relationships.

For each situation/example:

1. Cite the person(s) involved, the place of the occurrence, the situation, and the language used.
2. Then identify the type of language (sexist, racist, powerful or powerless, ambiguous, abstract, euphemism, relative words, evaluative language, etc.) and note the results of each incident.
3. How did language play a pivotal role in these experiences?
4. Each example should illustrate a different issue with language.
5. Be sure to include terms from the chapter to help explain the results of positive and negative language in your interpersonal relationships.

Chapter 6: Give a personal example of how you have used at least three (3) of the types of nonverbal communication discussed in Chapter 6: body movement, face and eyes, posture and gestures, touch, voice, distance, territoriality, time, physical attractiveness, clothing, and physical environment. Note that these examples should reflect specific incidents, not just general tendencies.

1. Based on these examples, personal reflection, and comments made to you by others, how do you rate yourself as a nonverbal communicator in terms of frequency, awareness, and accuracy of encoding and decoding messages? Again, be specific.
2. Be sure to include terms from the chapter to help explain the types of nonverbal communication you use in your interpersonal relationships.