Communication Types
Art of speaking to another person or thing
What is Oral Communication?
The level at which we are speaking or sound is traveling.
What is volume?
Communicating through an action used during speech.
What is a gesture?
The distance you want to have between yourself and other people
What is personal space?
Communication through touch.
What is Haptics?
How location affects communication.
What is Environment?
Writing text to convey a message to a person or thing.
What is written communication?
How fast someone talks.
What is rate?
Communicates emotion and expression from the speaker nonverbally through signals sent from the body
Distance of 0-18 inches between yourself and the other person communicating, usually friends or family.
What is Intimate distance?
Communication through eye contact and movement.
How something looks, and how that affects communication.
What is Appearance?
Communicating without using any set words or systems
What is Nonverbal Communication?
To emphasize words and how the emphasis affects their meaning.
What is Stress?
Communicating through the way you stand, sit, or otherwise are posed.
What is posture?
18 inches to 4 feet between yourself and the other person communicating, usually friends or someone you know well.
What is Personal Distance?
Communication through the sound of words.
What is vocalics?
Assuming something about a group of people or things based on attributes that may be true or untrue.
What is Stereotyping?
Communication that takes place between different people or things.
What is Interpersonal Communication?
Communicating with our eyes that we are either listening or directing our speech.
What is eye contact?
Communicate emotion and emphasis about our message and feeling/tone through signals sent from our face.
What is a facial expression?
Distance of about 4 to 12 feet between yourself and the other person communicating, usually acquaintances.
Communication through movement.
What is Kinesics?
An image or object that conveys meaning.
What is a Symbol?
Communicating with one’s self through thoughts.
How deep or high the pitch of a speaker is.
What is tone?
Is a physical connection that conveys a message between two people.
What is touch?
Distance of 12 or more feet between yourself and the other person communicating, usually either strangers or not known well.
What is public distance?
Communication through distance.
What is Proxemics?
How time affects communication.