COMPONENTS OF BODY LANGUAGE

COMPONENTS OF BODY LANGUAGE

Non-verbal communication has emerged an area of major interest to budding managers/leaders because they can exploit the knowledge successfully during negotiations and other major human interactions. Based on the developments in the broad field of body language, the subject can be grouped into the followings;

(1) Kinesics
Kinesics is the study of movements of different parts of the body
(2) Paralinguistics
Also called Para Language - it concerns with the study of the role of the vocal aspects viz., volume, speed, modulation, clarity etc while speaking.
(3) Proxemics
It relates to the role and importance of personal or spatial distance when people interact socially.
(4) Chronomics
It relates to the concept of time and its impact on humans in communication.
(5) Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Effective communication is the perception of „what has been received‟ rather than „what has been delivered‟ and in this five human senses have significant role and influence. Neuro-Linguistic Programming studies this aspect of human interaction.