verbal vs non-verbal communication

The discussion of verbal and non-verbal communication was very interesting to me. The one non-verbal communication style I found the most interesting was kinesic, which addresses our gestures, movements, and facial expressions. I feel that this is important in communication and people’s culture because not everyone in our society can speak verbally. With that there are also people from other cultures that use non-verbal communication styles to help communicant the verbal message. For me personally I come from a community where hand gestures and facial expressions are used in our every day communication. I noticed it mostly from my parents and there friends. When they talk to one another i notice that when they are giving directions or talking about something in site they use hand gestures to point out information or what they are specifically discussing. Another concept I found interesting in the lecture we had in this class was body epistemology. This concept locates how we come to learn and know within our flesh. It is also an idea that we learn things through the body will likely ring true for many of us. In communication I thought this concept was relevant because people can learn information if someone communicates through body movement. For me I can relate this to my days in basketball and how my coach would show us specific moves and techniques through movements and gestures. The way my coach would communicate with body movements helped me learn that information easier.