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Kinesics: This category of nonverbal communication basically relies on body
movement, facial expressions, eye contact, hand movement and every body movement that can be used for communication. This also varies across cultures, meanings giving to certain hand movement can mean something positive in one culture and in another it can be negative. In the United States of America, handshake is the easiest way to salute but in France it is seen to be socially incorrect. In France instead of this U.S local handshake, a handshake with less force is most preferable. In Ecuador to greet someone with a handshake is sign of honor. Same handshake in Africa can mean disrespect, if a 19 year old boy stretches his hand out to shake his dad or an older person. He is termed rude. Saying goodbye also varies among cultures, goodbye in Italy, Colombia and China goes like moving the palm and fingers front and back which is a nonverbal cue which means “come here” in Africa and the United States of America. Same movement in Malaysia is an insult. According to Gounaili (2011) the showing of thumb finger as a hand movement kind of communication means something positive in the west (America and other countries) but in Iran it means something negative. The thumbs up finger means something “OK”, kudos or keep it up and the likes in North America but it has an entirely different meaning in some other parts of the world. In japan it means “money”, in France it means “worthless” and in Russia it means “zero” something negative (Gounali, 2011 p.29). 31 Figure 5: Thumbs up (http://www.slideshare.net/NirmalaPadmavat/hand-gesture-of-differents-cultures) (Padmavat, 2013) Chronemics: This category of nonverbal communication is the study of use of time. Time is as old as man. Different groups have developed their time in the past before the modern day time zone. The modern time zone came as a result of an international world conference in 1884 which gave birth to the time zone we have today. The conference dictates 24 time zones which is equal to 15 degree longitude. Time varies across cultures which is also major impediment to communication. As Africans there is a popular concept called “African time”. This is generally about lateness to events by Africans. It has been misunderstood by a lot of people especially by Europeans. When they came to Nigeria before Nigeria gained independence in 1960. They had this believe because they didn’t understand what time is to Africans. The westerners invest time in knowing about the past, present and future. This is totally unusual to Africans, because an average African man doesn’t really care about the future. Time has a connection with a particular happening to an African man. So why bother about 32 the future when there is no stated event. It is a general African belief that tomorrow will take care of itself (Ekeke, 2011 p.13-14). Download 1.17 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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