Demonstrative Communication Case
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Demonstrative Communication
Transferring information from one person to another or from one person to and entire group of people is known as communication. The information that is exchanged comes from the ideas, views, or beliefs of the sender. The sender then passes that information on to the receiver who takes in the information and then provides feedback to the sender. The best way to communicate effectively is when the sender and receiver have a mutual understanding of the information being exchanged.
The best way to achieve a mutual understanding of the information is to present the information in a clear and properly formatted manner. The message (information) needs to us proper grammar, proper syntax, and use demonstrative communication techniques (nonverbal communication). Demonstrative communication includes things such as a person’s tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language. This is important to know because nonverbal communication is used more often than verbal communication. A person uses their bodies to communicate in many ways. They use their eyes to look at the other person so that they can see their body language, eyes, and facial expressions so that they can see how the other person is taking and understanding the information that is being presented to them. You can tell a lot about how the person is receiving your message by their posture, gestures, and facial expressions.
For example, you can gage a person’s emotions by understanding their facial expressions. By looking into the face and eyes of the people you are communicating with you will be able to notice if they are expressing fear, sadness, anger, boredom, annoyance, or happiness. This allows you gage how they are receiving the information you are delivering to them, and then it allows you to change your message to get your desired outcome. Tone of voice is another powerful indicator of how someone is receiving your message. Tone of voice also allows you to gage a person’s emotions. For example, if a person starts to raise their voice they may be getting upset, and that will in turn cause you to look at their other body language to get the total effect of how the receiver is taking (receiving) your message. Your tone of voice allows you to deliver your message in many ways as well. Depending on the situation it allows you to convey anger, sadness, joy, sarcasm, annoyance, or just about anything else you want to convey during your delivery of your message.
Postures and gestures are also very important parts of body language. Postures allow you see if a person is interested in hearing your message. For example, if a person turns their back on you and walks away it is clear that they do not want to hear your message. In fact it shows that they want nothing to do with you. Likewise if a person is standing
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