The importance of nonverbal communication

Last lecture our professor talked about the nonverbal communication. Obviously, nonverbal communication exists in every person everywhere. It can convey the information that people try to hide it and don’t want others to know about it. Nonverbal communication is some kind based on our emotion and feelings. Instead to speak out, nonverbal communication can better express you when people feel so shy or embarrass.

In the textbook, it mentioned “Nonverbal skills are important that good nonverbal communicators are more persuasive than people who are less skilled and they have a great chance of success in settings ranging from careers to poker to romance.” The most famous example for this argument I think is the “porker face”. When you play the porker, you can try to judge others faces and guess what poker they have. For instance, when you see someone show a little smile on his/her face, you would think that he/she has a possibility that get a hand of good cards. On the other hand, people who sign or are not happy, you can think that their pokers are not good. But a skilled porker player won’t show any expression on his face because they don’t want others to know his porker good or bad through judging the face and can make them misunderstand it as well. Besides let other people feel so persuasive, nonverbal communication can also make them confuse.

I think nonverbal communication is necessary sometimes not only in our daily life but also to the deaf-and-dumb people. The only way for them to express their feelings is sign language. I admire the person who invented the language so much that it uses manual movements to convey grammatical structure and meaning. In addition to using in deaf-and-dumb people, sign language can also use between different language people.

As a result, no doubt that nonverbal communication is so important and skill in our daily life and it is a universal way of communication as well.