TYPES OFNONVERBAL

COMMUNICATON

Facial Expressionscomprise much of our nonverbal

communication. We have 80 facial muscles with which we can create over 7,000 facial expressions.

Six main types of facial expressions

Occulesics eye behavior

Our eyes communicate in ways other than facial expressions.

Appearance & Artifacts

refer to the dress, grooming, and jewelry we wear.

Physical attractiveness

is one of the types of nonverbal communication. However it turns out that sometimes body types can communicate meanings and even fuel stereotypes. The body types actually create stereotypes even though they do not determine personality. Scientifically there are considered to be three general body types.

Kinesics

is the study of the relationship between nonlinguistic body motions and communication.

BLUSHING

Shrugging

Body Language & Posture

Body language is a form of non-verbal communication, which consists of body postures, gestures.

Paralinguistic

Paralinguistic is the study of vocal communication, separate from actual language. These are the vocal cues that make up the second pillar of great public speaking, the manner in which we say words.

Proxemic

communication is communicating with others by virtue of the relative positioning of your bodies.

Vertical distance

can communicate dominance and subordination.

Haptics

nonverbal communication through touch.

Olfactics

Even smells communicate.

Chronemics

nonverbal communication of time.

Monochronic Peopledo one thing at a

time

take time commitments (deadlines, schedules) seriously

Polycronic Peopledo many things at

once

have strong tendency to build lifetime relationships