Chapter 6 (Part B)

The next part is all about communication, but it is a non-verbal communication. The video below is some examples of non-verbal communication.            

So for everyone including your friends, family, your lecture, or even boss will have a proxemic distances it is the specific distances you maintain between you yourself and others. It also depends on a variety of factors for example, cultural, gender, age, and personality. Edward Hall distinguishes four distances that define the type of relationships between people which is intimate space, personal space, social space and public space. The picture below shows the four types of distance that represent types of relationships between you and other people.

After that we learned about three types of territoriality, which is primary, secondary and public territories. The primary territories are areas which is your own, like your room, your seat or your school desk. The secondary territories are areas that you do not own, but you have already occupied. For example, you always eat at the same place in the canteen, or the place you always seat during english class. Public territories are open to everyone, for example the cinema hall or shopping mall.

Our primary and secondary territories are designate with 3 types of markers. First one is central markers. An item is placed to reserve a territory, for example leaving your bag on the seat that you want. Second is boundary markers. This is to set boundaries between your territory and that of others, such as the arm-rester separating your seat from other people on each side of the seat at a movie theater. The third one is ear markers. This is to identify the marks that indicate your possession of a territory or object, for example, name tags, trademarks, your signature.

Then we learn about artificial communication. In artificial communication there are colour communication. Colour communication evidence and suggest that colours that may influence our psychology or our perceptions and behaviour. Next is clothing and body adornment, people make inferences about who you are by the way you dress,  your hairstyle, your clothing, and even your tattoos. The last one is space decoration,people make inferences about you based on how you decorate your personal spaces for example your home, your office. How you decorate your private spaces communicates who you are. For example if you are a lazy person you would leave the house messy, or if you are a creative person you would paint your room with colourful colours.

After that we learn about smell communication. There are four types of category in smell communication which is attraction message, taste, memory and identification messages.

Then we learn about time communication. Time communication is use to treat, organise, and to react to time. Then the lecture taught us about culture and gestures Not all gestures is usable in all the country. For example, using the thumbs up meaning in Brazil or Argentina is a bad word.