Yes, this is lacking detail. I forgot all my research in my dorm room, and i wont be back there till sunday. :-(
Final Project, Rough Draft #1
Nico Rose – ENC1101-92
Body language is the process of communicating nonverbally through conscious or unconscious gestures and movements. These physical motions and gestures create a work of art that has the ability to convey emotion, thoughts, and come together in a synergistic interaction to compose a powerful story. The “story” generated by simple things such as gestures and positioning is a powerful story – partly because it leaves the reader to fill in spaces of ambiguity and is able to convey messages that are difficult to express with the use of words. To illustrate this idea, below are some types of body language associated with the language of boredom, as compiled by changingminds.org
Distraction
A bored person looks anywhere but at the person who is talking to them. They find other things to do, from doodling to talking with others to staring around the room. They may also keep looking at their watch or a wall clock.
Repetition
Bored people often repeat actions such as tapping toes, swinging feet or drumming fingers. The repetition may escalate as they try to signal their boredom.
Tiredness
A person who feels that they are unable to act to relieve their boredom may show signs of tiredness. They may yawn and their whole body may sag as they slouch down in their seat, lean against a wall or just sag where they are standing. Their face may also show a distinct lack of interest and appear blank.
Clearly, the idea that the audience is bored with the speakers actions is adequately expressed with non-scripted & non-verbal actions. With body language being such an arid form of communication, what do you categorize it as? Clearly, this medium is just as powerful as scripted or verbal communication, but does that entitle it to be a text? Does body language have the power to create a rhetorical situation? Moreover, is body language a composition? Personally, I feel it is one of the most important texts ever derived; furthermore, the application of this “text” creates a composition.
Body Paragraph One
• What are some comparisons of body language and scribed text?
o How are the components related?
o Do they share common entities?
Body Paragraph Two
• What are the components of a text?
o Tone, rhetorical strategies, mood, purpose
o Text does not necessarily have to be ink, as seen with the visual texts explored in this class.
o As defined in the New Oxford American Dictionary, a text is 1) a piece of written or printed material regarded as conveying the authentic or primary form of a particular work & 2) a subject or theme for a discussion or exposition. There are many denotations for the word “text,” but I feel the two most important are the ones above. If a work or piece of art meets any of the requirements above, it qualifies as a text.
Body Paragraph Three
How is body language related to the word “composition”
• As defined in the New Oxford American Dictionary, a composition is a work of music, literature, or art.
o Specifically, a composition is the action or art of producing such types of work. (New Oxford American Dictionary)
• Body Language is a visual story of emotion, thought, self representation – a narrative
• The gestures, motions, and presentation of your physical staff creates a story that your telling to everyone around you.
• The act of creating this “story” qualifies the action of body language as a composition.
• The overall mental thought process that is associated with producing the physical language in conjunction with the actual creation of body language is the composition of body language
• The application of the “text” creates the composition.
The word “text” has many denotations. In addition, each of the denotations has connotative derivates. The rhetorical elements that are present in many traditional “texts,” such as mood, tone, purpose, and style are also shared by this paralanguage. In my opinion, the only prerequisite for something to be a text is that it has to conveys a message or tells a story – and body language does both of these clearly and powerfully. Continuing, the application of this text for the purpose of communication creates a composition; however, the composition could not exist without the paralanguagal text created by body language.
3 comments:
I Agree with what you have said in the paper. I do think that body lanuage is the most comonly used and recongnized signs of comunication, but we do it so often than one just knows what it means.
• As defined in the New Oxford American Dictionary, a composition is a work of music, literature, or art.
o Specifically, a composition is the action or art of producing such types of work. (New Oxford American Dictionary)
• Body Language is a visual story of emotion, thought, self representation – a narrative
These are excellent examples of how body language is a composition. I think that this is a very strong paper/ case study that you use. The details and statements are well supported with references, and examples of how body language is a composition and text.
The rhetorical elements that are present in many traditional “texts,” such as mood, tone, purpose, and style are also shared by this paralanguage. In my opinion, the only prerequisite for something to be a text is that it has to conveys a message or tells a story – and body language does both of these clearly and powerfully.
I like how you wrap up the paper with a strong wel-supported thesis.
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I agree strongly with your take on body language. Although we overlook it, our interpretation of people's tones and their meaning in what they say is judged off of body language. You could say the same thing and use different body language to give it an entirely different meaning. This was very interesting and well done!
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