Part 2 Communication Subtopic 1: a ‘typical’ English conversation.

Basic vocabulary

Notes

1. non-verbal communication

2. body language

3. gesture

4. ambulation

5. proxemics

6. kinesics

7. posturing

8. tics

9. subvocals

10. vocalizm / inflection

11. communication mode

12. mannerism

13. interlocutor

14. non-verbial communication (behaviour)

15. ‘opening phase / phase of parting’

16. to make / break an eye-contact

17. to catch smb’s eye

18. ‘conventional facial expressions’

19. ‘a position of personal proximity’

20. to invade one’s personal space

21. to adopt ‘an appropriate posture’

22. ‘ritual gestures and phrases of greeting / parting’

23. stereotyped ‘channel-opening remarks’

24. the bulk of the conversation

25. the main business phase

26. TAPE “cutting age”

27. to carry out smth.

28. to attach feelings / emotions / a quality / an idea / meaning to smth.

29. bias

30. to shoot / distort / convey / give out the message

31. to emit

32. an overall

33. ambiguous

34. lapel

35. to apply makeup to the body

36. kinesis, ambulation

37. to experience environment

38. to glide

39. to stride

40. to stomp

41. stimulus

42. a ‘touchy feely’

43. to size smb. up

44. in terms of

45. trustworthiness

46. odds

47. to posture one’s body

48. con artists

49. to use smth. to good advantage

50. fetus (foetus)

51. seductive

52. tics

53. to fold arms / legs

54. to assume a body position

55. to stammer

56. to hum

57. to grunt

58. to groan

59. to place distance between yourself and somebody

60. to infer from

61. to be jammed up

62. mute

63. implication

64. to package vocally

65. to come to the insight

66. sole reliance

67. a thumb

68. the first forefinger

69. the little/index/middle/ring/trigger finger

70. idiosyncratic

71. replete

72. to extrapolate

73. inputs

74. to develop verbal fluency

75. to bombard

76. sense data

77. gut-level experience

78. to mislead

79. inefficient

80. inherent

81. feed-back process

82. a flow back and forth

83. to solicit

84. spatial relationships

85. fixed/semi-fixed feature space

86. species

87. to impede/to promote

88. to violate the territorial boundaries

89. bubble

90. adverse effects

91. mutually

92. trespassing

93. jeopardy

94. stationary

95. rigors

96. sufficient

97. fleeting irritation

98. office cubicles

99. a pool employee

100. to enthrone (to be enthroned)

101. derivative arrangements

102. partitions

103. to relish

104. to bask in

105. celestial

106. police interrogators

107. off-limits

108. to revolve around

109. linear / curved seating alignment

110. conducive to smth

111. to glimpse

112. revel in

113. preferences

114. to take hold

115. selective

116. amnesia

117. to erase

118. to be at odds with one another

119. to set smb. up

120. friction

121. to wind up in arguments

122. appealing

123. conversational style

124. a sting

125. to allow for

126. to cast / take blame

127. a stalemate

128. to spiral