Demonstrative Communication Paper
Ronald McKenna
BCOM/275
December 19, 2014
Dominic Rufino
Demonstrative Communication Paper
Demonstrative Communication is a form of communication that includes nonverbal and unwritten communication. Demonstrative communication involves facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice, hand gestures, and eye contact. Although demonstrative communication is non-verbal, this form of communication still involves listening.
In addition, Demonstrative Communication can be either effective or ineffective, either positive or negative depending on how messages are communicated and perceived by a receiver or audience. One example is, a person stating their opinion about a particular topic in a loud voice in a many ways. The person speaking loudly could possibly be viewed as being a confident, angry, or annoying person. Another side of demonstrative communication is when written communication can be accomplished through emails, reports, articles or even Facebook. All of these written types of communication are being used worldwide now. It is said that demonstrative communication involves sending or receiving a wordless message, demonstrative communication is often used to emphasize verbal communication messages. An example is facial expressions. Facial expressions are one of the most common forms of nonverbal communication, and can sometimes send a louder and immediate message than verbal communication. If you think back to your childhood and how your parent’s eye contact was understood, and nothing had to be said. What they wanted done was done just by the look they gave you.
Demonstrative communication can have a positive effect for the sender and receiver, or a negative effect for the sender and receiver while communicating. Demonstrative communication acts as a backup for your verbal communication. A person’s facial expressions can be conceived and viewed by people as a positive or negative depending on what facial expression the other person may have. A smile could be viewed as a positive facial expression, while a frown could be viewed as a negative facial expression, but grins can be viewed as either positive or negative. Some people view grins as arrogant and the grin would therefore be seen as a negative. Body language is also a powerful tool that is used in any type of communicating, whether it is positive or negative communication. One of the first types of body language movements that many people would consider important is eye contact! Eye contact is an important quality to have at any age with other people because it shows others that you are confident. Eye contact also shows people that you are knowledgeable in the certain subject at hand, but if a person continuously looks, down at the floor or up at the ceiling then it can be perceived as negative body language. A person’s body language is one of the most important factors in how the message is received, it would not matter what a person may have intended to say with verbally. Because, communication not only involves communicating with words, but also without words and using body language, such as facial expressions, gestures, eye-contact, and posture. Whether the message is delivered positively or negatively depends on one’s tone of voice. In order to deliver a positive message, one need to use a non-confrontational and pleasant tone of voice and delivering a negative message would include yelling, fast talking, stumbling with one’s words.
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