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Project Results > Modul: Nonverbal Communication

Non-verbal | Introduction | Szenario |Task | Theoretical Background | The Modules Theoretical Background

The human body, better, its sensor-motor organs are the tools we use to develop our cognitive and communicative potentialities.
This process is reinforced and multiplied by the social interactions in which participate.
Even recognizing the role protagonist of the spoken communication we want to underline the value of the non verbal communication (N.V.C.) in the everyday human communicative behaviour.

N.V.C.'s functions with reference to the linguistic communication

1. Paralinguístics concerns to the components that always accompany to the oral linguistic production (but there are not included in the traditional studies of Linguistics) We use to distinguish the tone, the timbre, volume and tempo.
2. N.V.C. as a complement of the linguistic communication
In most of the spoken communicative acts it appears a non verbal communicative component that works complementing, to greater or lesser degree, the content of the verbal communication, reinforcing it, contradicting it and organizing the content of the discourse.

3. N.V.C. as an alternative system to the linguistic communicaticon
(autonomous)
It deals with the body acts (oral, gestures, movements, glazes, touches, body positions, distance among the participants) that function sometimes, alone or coordinated among themselves, as communicative entities autonomous, as alternatives to the linguistic communication.
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