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Nonverbal signals are often more important than the words expressed. Even more than words, nonverbal cues indicate the relationship among conversers.



**NON-VERBAL SIGNS ARE:**
 * __Emblems:__ Gestures with precise meaning known by a culture
 * __Illustrators:__ Gestrures that enhance verbal messages.


 * __Adaptors:__ Help a person adapt release tension, also called “manipulators”. Hands are used vey often ( scratch, touch, smood..)


 * __Regulators:__ Used to regulate, manage or control a conversation . Turn taking, control the conversation
 * __Affect displayers:__ Facial expressions showing emotions. Micro-expressions

**PARALANGUAGE: **
 * __Qualifiers:__ volume, inflection, pitch, pacing, tone, melodiousness.


 * __Characterizers:__ sounds, sights, mumbling, groans, whines, yawning, laughing, cryings ( show character, emotions, and sensations)


 * __Segregates:__ Fillers in speech, Pauses, silence or sounds: Oh! Ah-ah!, like-a, sh, Uhuh!..


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Many nonverbal signs are universal. For example, smiling and frowning mean the same thing regardless of where one travels on this globe. Often, nonverbal signs are involuntary and physiological.

**1. PROXEMICS** **2. SEMIOTICS:** Seeks to understand how natural or constructed signs and symbols function as a communication medium.
 * __Semiotics:__ semantics, pyntactics and pragmatics.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;">__Sing:__ generic label for a unit of non-verbal communication.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;">__Cue:__ non-verbal sign used to promt an event, behavior or experience.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;">__Signal:__ used to inform as to what will happen next.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;">**3. KINESICS:** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 150%; text-align: justify;">Study of non-verbal coding systems of bodily activity as related to human communication.

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