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THE WOMAN EXPRESSES HER OPINION OF THE NOTICE FROM THE 
HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT. STATE HER OPINION AND THE REASONS SHE 
GIVES FOR HOLDING THAT OPINION. 
 
Question 4, Page 218
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Listen to a passage on the same topic in a psychology class. 
(Professor) 
I’d like to make a couple of points, now, about nonverbal communication. 
First, nonverbal communication does not require intent. One can 
communicate nonverbally without intending to do so. Um think about a 
student who’s feeling bored listening to a professor drone on and on; this 
student might not want to make his or her boredom clear to the 
professor, might not want to offend the professor, but perhaps the 
student’s boredom is clear to anyone who looks at him or her. 
Another point I’d like to make is that nonverbal communication doesn’t 
take place automatically simply because one person has tried to 
communicate nonverbally. Uh if one person makes a certain gesture or 
expression, for example, but no one understands it, then no 
communication has taken place. There is communication only if the 
gesture or expression is understood. 
OK, um let me give you a specific example. If you’ve ever spent any time 
in Brazil, you may have noticed how many different gestures they have. 
During my first few months there, people would gesture while they were 
speaking to communicate other ideas along with their words. It took me a 
while before I even noticed that these gestures were being made. But 
because I had no familiarity with the gestures they were using, I didn’t 
know they were attempting to communicate ideas beyond just their 
words. It wasn’t until I had been there for uh some time and began to ask 
about the gestures that I started to understand. I realized that I had been 
missing parts of conversations simply because I wasn’t understanding 

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the meaning of gestures or even aware that they were deliberate 
attempts to convey additional meaning.