Summary

Nonverbal Communication (29-54 pages) Not only said words can speak, you can speak without words as well, you can speak with your body, appearance, pose and even with your smell. Nonverbal Communication, or NVC, is defined as the message we send and receive from others without words, both on a conscious and subconscious level. Remember, sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Like we learn the language from the society, we learn nonverbal codes as well. Language can differ one culture from another, nonverbal codes do the same. All cultures have separately developed nonverbal message based on their collective realities. Nonverbal messages can be broken down into visual, vocal, physical, and spatial messages. NVC is a major factor in all cultures but within its own culture-specific context of appearance, paralanguage, kinesics, chronemics, proxemics, haptics, and olfactory.