Demonstrative_Communication

Demonstrative Communication Frank McDaniels Jr. BCOM 275 December 5, 2011 Dr. Kimberly Lockwood Demonstrative communication is the process where messages are sent and received. Exchanging thoughts, information, or messages, speech, writing, or signals and even behavior can all be labeled as types of communication. Verbal or nonverbal, visual or written are different forms of communication. Written or oral communication can be considered to be verbal communication, facial expressions, eye contact, or gestures, and including body posture are considered to be forms of nonverbal communication. Letters, emails, reports, and articles are all forms of verbal communication. Unwritten and nonverbal communications are also forms of demonstrative communication. Demonstrative communication is the sending and receiving of messages without words (Nayab, 2010). This form of communication is used to reinforce verbal communication, even though it can send messages of its own and stand on its own. The most common type of nonverbal communication is the facial expression. Verbal communication is reinforced by demonstrative communication. Examples include a good handshake, dressing for the job you are applying for, and presenting yourself as a friendly person will tell a lot about you during an interview. Using these qualities during the interview can only reinforce your verbal communication performance (Sutton, 2011). When meeting someone for the first time you can generally tell if the person is friendly or not, just by the way they conduct themselves by saying hello or even smiling when they talk to you, how they speak and if they face you while talking. You can usually tell how someone thinks about you just by the way they act around you by the nonverbal signals they send out. By learning how to decode these reactions a person can tell if they are getting a negative or positive feedback and then he or she can use that to their advantage. Demonstrative communication allows for the use of self-expression (Sutton, 2011). People gauge your personality based on how you present yourself to them. A business executive wears a suit to show he or she is in control and their dominance, and their ability as a leader. Demonstrative communication is something we do every day without even knowing we are doing so. How we wear our hair, clothes, markings such as tattoos and piercings, and other symbols are all different types of demonstrative communication. We should be careful when using this type of communication even though we get a positive feedback, it can be imprecise and misread very easily. Different people can read facial expressions and gestures may mean different things to other people. If you do not know someone it would not be hard for you to misread them. Demonstrative communication does not have the complexity that the spoken language has (Sutton, 2011). A person cannot tell about their life story without using words, or pictures and this would still leave parts of your life story incomplete. Demonstrative communication is like all other forms of communication it also involves listening and responding to what you hear. There are times when a person’s actions can tell us more about them, than their words. There are times when we can listen with our eyes better than we can with our ears. At this point let us use this example your neighbor of nine years decides to put a fence around his property, cutting off direct access to his property form yours without telling you he was going to do this. Your neighbor could be telling you that there is a problem between you and them or they just want more privacy. You could respond by putting up your own fence as a response to them. It is necessary to use active listening when someone is speaking in order for you to receive any message. This is what some people call cultivating an interest between the sender and the message (Cheesbro, O’Connor, and Rios, 2010). This is what allows us to give a better response and feedback to the person sending the message. In order to promote a better understanding between the sender and the receiver we need to use the feedback properly. Demonstrative communication is something that is used every day without the knowledge that we are using it. Demonstrative communication can come in other forms such as smiling, waving, and dressing in different styles. Listening and responding are arts in themselves when it comes to demonstrative communication. Demonstrative communication can be misread or misinterpreted very easily. In communication body language counts for more than half of all types of communication, so we should pay close attention to the silent actions of other people. The types of communication of evolving every day, how we accept these changes will ensure that we understand it and respond correctly. References Cheesebro, T., O’Connor, L., & Rios, F. (2010).Communicating in the Workplace. Upper SaddleRiver, NJ: Prentice Hall. Nayab, N. (2010, July 26).Different types of communication. Retrieved from http://www.brighthub.com/office/project-management/articles/79297.aspx Sutton, N. (2011, March 26).