{"id":85,"date":"2012-03-13T16:41:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncsu.edu\/project\/design-projects\/student-publication\/?p=85"},"modified":"2012-10-08T18:14:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T18:14:41","slug":"non-verbal-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/student-publication\/non-verbal-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Verbal Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>The Occupy movements have\u00a0inspired countless groups across\u00a0the nation to come together and\u00a0join in what is being called \u201cthe\u00a099%\u201d to protest the \u201c1%\u201d. This\u00a0isn\u2019t the only language being\u00a0created within the movements\u00a0if you\u2019ve going to any of their\u00a0general assemblies. A quick look\u00a0around the crowd during one\u00a0of their speakers will give you\u00a0a glimpse of waggling fingers,\u00a0crossed arms raised, and hands\u00a0forming C\u2019s in the air. To anyone\u00a0outside the Occupy community,\u00a0this would seem entirely\u00a0arbitrary, but to them it is a\u00a0system upon which they maintain\u00a0order during speeches.<\/p>\n

Reacting not only to the need\u00a0for quick communication but\u00a0also to the pressure from law\u00a0enforcement to keep noise down,\u00a0the general assemblies have\u00a0created a system of hand and\u00a0arm gestures in order to quickly\u00a0communicate to the speaker\u00a0what they think of his message.\u00a0Palms open and fingers wiggling\u00a0means that they approve of\u00a0what the provocateur is saying;\u00a0arms crossed in an X over one\u2019s\u00a0head means disapproval; a hand\u00a0forming a C in the air calls for\u00a0the speaker to clarify what he is\u00a0saying because he is either using\u00a0terminologies that people aren\u2019t\u00a0familiar with or he is getting off\u00a0topic.<\/p>\n

As weird as these may look,\u00a0though, recurring gestures\u00a0such as these used for mass\u00a0communication are not new by\u00a0any means. \u201cIt has a quality of\u00a0marking the group, and creating a\u00a0clear boundary from others,\u201d says\u00a0David McNeill, head of the McNeill\u00a0Lab Center for Gesture and\u00a0Speech Research at the University\u00a0of Chicago, who for nearly 50\u00a0years has studied unconscious\u00a0hand movements that accompany\u00a0speech, along with conscious\u00a0gestures like these that replace\u00a0it. The idea of hand gestures has\u00a0permeated all manners of society,\u00a0from a thumbs-up, to a middle\u00a0finger, to baseball coaches using\u00a0them to signal what players on\u00a0the field should do. Even the\u00a0stereotype of crime syndicates\u00a0depicts members using hand\u00a0signals to seem less conspicuous\u00a0and avoid the possibility of\u00a0someone recording what they are\u00a0saying.<\/p>\n

So whether it be a gesture of\u00a0good fortune, or the signal to\u00a0have a man \u201coffed\u201d, non-verbal\u00a0communication is consistently\u00a0needed in our society in places\u00a0where either speech simply does\u00a0not communicate what is felt or\u00a0a need for silence is present. And\u00a0with that, I tip my hat and wave\u00a0goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Occupy movements have\u00a0inspired countless groups across\u00a0the nation to come together and\u00a0join in what is being called \u201cthe\u00a099%\u201d to protest the \u201c1%\u201d. This\u00a0isn\u2019t the only language being\u00a0created within the movements\u00a0if you\u2019ve going to any of their\u00a0general assemblies. A quick look\u00a0around the crowd during one\u00a0of their speakers will give you\u00a0a glimpse of waggling fingers,\u00a0crossed arms raised, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101027,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/student-publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/student-publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/student-publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/student-publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/student-publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/student-publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/student-publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/student-publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/student-publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/student-publication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}