1.2 Answer the questions:

1. Illustrate one’s occupational status through the choice of clothes.

2. What can the absence/presence of facial hair illustrate?

3. What message is conveyed in an earring in one ear, nose, navel?

4. Give examples of symbolic hairdos.

5. Associate meanings with different ways of using make-up.

6. Give examples of different set of message cars give out.

7. Illustrated one’s occupational status through the choice of dwelling and location.

8. How do you understand the seventh form of symbolic communication?

9. What social taboos associated with touching do you know? Which ones are peculiar to your culture, which are not? How can people illustrate nonverbally their unwillingless to be touched and visa a versa?

10. How eye contact is important in keeping the audience’s attention? Give examples, analyzing lecturers you know or famous orators. Why eye-contact is very important in communication.

11. What do people seek while sizing each other?

12. What according to the author is the most significant learning that comes out of life experience, connected with words?

13. What are other difficulties encountered in using the verbal mode?

14. Is there a connection between the way the person speaks and the way he/she experiences the language?

15. How babies translate sense data into a meaning system?

16. What factors determine the way grown-ups experience the world?

17. What position of personal proximity is common to your culture?

18. Is excessive gesturing acceptable in your country?

19. What are the implications for true communication as stated in the article?

20. Give examples of inefficient communication, which happen as a result of misunderstanding messages.

1.3 Find factual information in the text to prove the following:

• Words have meaning only in context.

• The vocabulary and the ability to articulate define the experience parameters.

• Adults experience the world in an abstract way, rather than in a concrete and imaginative way.

• Not all meaning can be carried through the verbal mode only.

• The communication is likely to occur when people share a common meaning experiences.

1.4 Tell what you’ve learnt about:

1) Appearance as a cue to the correct way of behaving and communication.

2) Body language and vocalisation cues.

3) Cognitive development in children.

4) The way adults experience the world.

1.5 Discuss the following questions (when discussing use the active vocabulary of the topic):

• What is the difference between verbal and non-verbal means of communication?

• What is the function of non-verbal means of communication?

• What non-verbal means of communication can you think of?

• What kind of gestures do you know? Where does the difference between them lie? Which of the gestures can be considered more illuminating?

• What can you say about the language of signs?

• What are the basic requirements for a sign to become a means of communication?

• Why is it important to manipulate non-verbal means of communication freely?

• Should we study non-verbal means of communication together with the verbal ones when learning a foreign language?

2.1 Discuss the questions with your partner:

• Are you very conscious of your personal space?

• Remember yourself waiting in a queue or somewhere in a crowded place. How much intrusion into your personal space do you allow?

• Is such physical contact as kissing, hugging encouraged or discouraged in your country?

• Do you have your personal seat, so called established setting in a classroom, if so do you feel irritated when someone occupies it?

• Are you a kind of person who relishes basking in the group energy of large crowds at a sports, music, or celestial event?

2.2 Read the text “The Body Language of Proxemics”, find more information about non-verbal communication and answer the questions below.