Task 2. Identify the type of non-verbal means used in the following situations as well as the message they convey.
1. Mr. Casey, freeing his arms from his holders, suddenly bowed his head on his hands with a sob of pain. – Poor Parnell! He cried loudly. – My dead king! He sobbed loudly and bitterly.
2. The girl came back, making signs to him to be quick and go out quietly by the back.
3. A smell of molten tallow came up from the dean’s candle butts and fused itself in Stephen’s consciousness with the jingle of the words, bucket and lamp and lamp and bucket.
4. …Davin who, intent on the game, had paid no need the talk of the others.
– And how is my little tame goose? He asked. Did he sign, too?
Davin nodded and said: - And you, Stevie?
Stephen shook his head.
5. “Oh, for God’s sake!” I stared at her in exasperation and walked out of the kitchen and into the back garden.
6. Ian motioned to me to sit beside him. “Tell him that he’s a fool and that he’s missing out on a really great woman.”
7. “There isn’t going to be a wedding,” I told her. “Isobel!” She looked at me in shock. “Why?”
8. She waved at a lounge-girl. “A couple of Southern Comforts, please.”
9. She raised an eyebrow enquiringly at me.
10. “Oh, Isobel!” She put her arms around me and hugged me.
Task 3. Discuss in small groups answers to the following questions.
How can you characterize yourself according to the Stanford Time Perspective Inventory scale? How does your time orientation affect communication? Think about your own time perspective. When does your orientation work for you, and when does it get you into trouble? Are your relationships with others hurt or helped by the way you think of time?
Task 4. Working in pairs define whether you are an endormorph, a mesomorph, or a ectomorph; and state your somatype. Explain your choice.
Unit 6
Interpersonal Communication
I. NOTES
It is easy to underemphasize the importance of everyday communication. Whereas public speakers often deal with issues of national importance and members of decision-making groups often design important new products, members of interpersonal dyads tend to spend their time in what seem to be less significant pursuits: gossiping, joking, or simply passing the time. Viewed in this light, interpersonal communication hardly seems to be a topic worthy of serious study. But in reality interpersonal communication is far from insignificant. It is, in fact, the most frequently used and, arguably, the most important form of communication humans undertake. It’s possible to make it through life without ever giving a public speech or joining any decisionmaking group. None of us, however, can avoid interpersonal communication. In fact, our survival as social beings depends in large part on our interpersonal communication skills.