Hi mayli~
According to Loren Dickinson, PhD, "In some situations, up to 90% of
the information we gain from other people is unspoken. Body language,
gestures, facial expressions and tones of voice can reveal almost
everything..." (from "Beyond Words,"
http://www.icemall.com/shop/item513.html ) Studies have shown that
even when the words we use say one thing, certain silent communication
can make us believe that the opposite of what's being said is true.
Actors have long been aware that this sort of body language acts as a
silent communicator. For example, award winning actor Michael Caine
has noted that when he plays a character who is lying, he will often
allow his eyes to shift back and forth, signaling the audience that he
isn't all he may first appear to be. The old and cherished form of
acting called miming relies exclusively upon silent communication.
Other types of artists have also long employed silent communication.
Painting, sculpture, photography, and all other non-verbal,
non-literary arts must rely on it completely. Columnist Frank Morgan
wrote of one personal experience he had with this sort of silent
communication: "We visited the Canadian Museum of Civilization in
Hull...it was moving. There were a dozen life-size sculptures,
plaster-casts of the sculptures on the Canadian War Memorial on Vimy
Ridge. I stood, unconscious of the passing throng, and looked at
Sacrifice in the centre. To the right was the bent statue of the
homeless, but to the left was the soldier breaking the sword in two.
Silently, it spoke to me in the words of the prophet Micah, 'They
shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning
hooks, nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more.' With the breaking of the sword, those
several sculptures spoke to me without words." (Frank Morgan, The
Record, http://www.therecord.com/opinion/morgan/opinion_morgan_020810102424.html
)
Another example of silent communication comes when you are in a
foreign place and don't speak the language. Each year, hundreds of
travelers must somehow manage under these trying circumstances; how do
they do it? With non-verbal, silent communication.
People also often feel as though they have a sort of silent
communication with animals. Although we can't speak their language, we
feel we can often communicate with our pets silently.
An area of silent communication that we are probably all familiar with
occurs in domestic life. For example, the wife who is miffed at her
husband for some serious offense may readily adopt silent
communication; she may not speak to him for hours at a time, may avoid
looking his way, and in other silent ways clearly communicate to him
that she is angry.
Certain forms of flirting are also silent communication. While the
dialogue between a man and woman may strictly be business, when the
woman flips her hair, lowers and raises her eyelids, half-smiles, and
looks at the man with her head slightly bent, she is clearly flirting.
And when he brushes his arm against her, touches her knee or her hand
fleetingly, and smiles boardly, he is flirting, too. Silently, the man
and woman are expressing their romantic interest in each other.
Silent communication even comes into play on the battle field. In the
military, soldiers must be able to communicate silently, so they don't
alert the enemy to their presence. Simple hand, face, and arm
movements take the place of words. On the sports field, the best
players can look at their fellow teammates and "just know" what they
are going to do next. This may be the most difficult sort of silent
communication to describe, but those who play sports are very familiar
with it. "A player can just take a look at their teammate and know
exactly when he should lob the ball up to his teammate so he can slam
it home," one athlete writes. "Every sport is like that. You can tell
what a coach wants you to do just by a look he gives you." (
://www.google.com/search?q=cache:yBcPAbTDIB0C:www.cord.edu/faculty/olsen/webboard/wwwboard/messages/129.html+%22silent+communication%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
)
So while we may generally feel that our primary source of
communication is verbal, in actuality our facial expressions and body
language are often a far superior form of communication--despite the
fact that they are completely silent.
Keywords Used:
"silent communication"
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Hope this helps!
kriswrite |
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