#September 29, 2010
Lecturing Sharing Discussion
Non Verbal Communication
Communication, Meaning, and Sign
What is non verbal communication? It is a communication by gesture and also held by symbols and sign. How it will be, if in our life there are not particular signs that we understand?? It will be more trouble because we could not life without signs. Because of it, every culture in countries has different signs.
According to Saussure, sign used to purpose make our life more in order. And sign is also physical object with meaning. Saussure as we know as a master of language divided sign to be two parts. The first is marker (penanda) that is an imagery sign like we perception such as marking paper and sound in the air. And the second is sign (petanda) that is the concept of the way of thinking that shouted out of marker. The way of thinking’s concept is same in every culture that uses same language. It also has arbiter meaning concept. That is when we said something we can understanding it pleases.
Saussure said that sign has two relation, those are paradigmatic and syntagmatic. Paradigmatic is a concept that built from a sign. While syntagmatic explain how every word can be exchanged each others.
If Saussure divided sign to be two parts, it different with Pierce, the master of philosophy divided sign to be three part, those are icon, index, and symbol. Icon showed resemblance by the objects. It’s more known by visual sign like a photos or pictures. And index could be said the relationship of cause-effect. Sign of index has direct relation with the object. For example, smoke is index of fire, and sneezing is index of influence, etc. while symbol is a sign which have relation with the object based on convention, agreement, or the rule. The words are symbol. Numbers is also symbol. We never knew why the number of two (2) direct to a couple of object: it’s just a convention or a rule in our culture and traditions that made it like that.
After we learn signs, we must know code. Code is a setting of sign. And code is not same with sign, which has differences. Code is more complex. Those are the more implication about code. Argyle (1972) has been list 10 list of code and has a meaning.
1. Body in contact
2. Procsimity
3. Orientation
4. Appearance
5. Nod
6. Face expression
7. Gesture
8. Posture
9. Eye Contact and Movement
10. Non Verbal Communication Aspect
Divided to be two parts:
a. Prosodic code
b. Paralinguistic’s code
And for the last, I can conclude that non verbal communication is very important too seems like verbal. It’s because non verbal communication as a supply in verbal communication. And also it can be a mediator communication between two people who have different language.
