Non-Verbal Communications & Messages

Butterworth makes clear the significance of the topic, noting both the presence of body language in infants and the relationship between early nonverbal communication and the learning of language itself. The sub-title of his article in Natural History is "finger pointing by babies is correlated with the rate of language acquisition." He goes on to argue that finger pointing, which is apparently used in the animal world only by humans, "is closely linked with speech acquisition. The age when babies first point (around the 11-month point, on average) is a good indicator of their progress in language comprehension" (Butterworth, 1997, p. 14).

A fair implication is that successful nonverbal communication will affect how, when, and how well the infant acquires verbal skills. If the infant's finger pointing is ignored, the infant may lose the incentive to love to the next stage of the acquisition of communication skills. In all matters related to communication, healthy i

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men in mixed groups.... In comparing the body postures of young men and women in all-male, all-female, and mixed discussion groups, that the men sat more or less the same way whether or not there were women present: They sprawled out in "relaxed" positions, taking up a large amount of space. The women ... drew themselves in, assuming "ladylike" postures, when there were men in the group, but relaxed and sprawled out when there weren't (Tannen, 1991, p. 236). Men were found to most often dominate mixed meetings, showing that body language is an expression, often unconscious, of the internal reality of an individual and his perception of others' realities. Tannen seeks above all to make both genders aware of body language and its meaning in order to advance communications between the genders. Trenholm and Jensen introduce the concept of decoding, which refers to the action of an individual as he or she attempts to make sense of the body language of others. The complexity of the process of human communication can be overwhelming: While some nonverbal messages stand on their own, others work in conjunction with verbal messages. Nonverbals can complement, accent, repeat, substitute for, or contradict verbal messages (Trenholm
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