Non-verbal Commnunication

I think of all the aspects of communication, non-verbal is the most understated, misunderstood so to speak.  At first, I thought that this portion of commnunication was just a small part of our everyday life, but as I considered it in more depth, I realized that it was more than that.  There are five parts that come together to make up non verbal communication; they are: physical appearance, facial expressions, eye contact, body language and proxemics.  All of these parts are simply generic catagories that help us identify the forms of non verbal communication.  For instance, body language can be further specified by stating that hand gestures are often used to help describe.  All of these aspects can be further expanded upon, not just body language, however because our body language is always changing, it is one of the key factors of non verbals.

When reflecting this chapter, I choose to specifically identify body language seperately because it can be used so much in communication.  Appearance can be misunderstood, facial expressions can be faked, eye contact and proxemics can only take communication so far.  How someone holds themself in a conversation can communicate everything you would need to know.  Emblems, regulators, adaptors and illistrators are all forms of body language that can substitute language.  I believe this is why body language is so important, it change a conversation.  Overall, it is more important than meets the eye; for the observant onlooker, non verbal communication can display more that our ears can interpret.