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| Surf's Up! John Bulwer was one of the first people to study nonverbal communication, way back in 1649. He is quoted as arguing that facial expressions are important to understand because "they are the neerest and immediate organs of the voluntaire or impetuous motions of the mind." Check out the website mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/fanl.html to see some of Bulwer's early explorations into nonverbal communication. Do you agree that nonverbal communication reflects internal feelings? Are his ideas relevant in cross-cultural situations? Surf's Up! Take a look at the Automated Face Analysis website (www.cs.cmu.edu/~face/home.htm). Do you believe that these kinds of facial expressions not only are similar across cultures but can be accurately deciphered by a computer? Surf's Up! Do your gestures have legal status? Read the short paper about legal gestures to find out (www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/re_mem.htm). Surf's Up! What are acceptable and unacceptable nonverbals among cocultures in the United States? One website on cross-cultural communication (www.nwrel.org/cnorse/booklets/ccc/table4.html) lists some differences between African Americans and Anglo Americans. For which group is touching another's hair offensive? For which group are hats and sunglasses appropriate to be worn indoors? For which group is interruption rude? What other cocultural nonverbal communication differences can you think of? Surf's Up! Explore the Hand-speak website (www.handspeak.com). Take the tour and find out how to say "Hello," "Good-bye," and "Friend" in ASL. How is sign language similar to and different from other forms of nonverbal communication? |