Language is Important

Language:

Part 1:

1)   This experiment was not difficult for my partner or me because with how the world is today, in a classroom or in the work environment where you are told not to speak much, we adapted to reading each other’s body languages as well as learn to understand the facial language.  Making this experiment rather easy.

2)   Like I stated in the first answer, we both are so used to reading the facial expressions that we both understand what we are saying without words or sign language rather well.  If it were someone else though, I do think that more hand movements would be coming from him or her as a way to try and make me help them understand what they are saying.

3)   If we were of two different cultures, the culture with more verbal understanding would probably have the biggest advantage because it is easier to say something then to show something in most cases.  When I think of someone who can’t really communicate with a verbally able person I think of a special needs student and a “normal” student.  Because of some lack of verbal communication, we tend to talk softer in tone as well as use hand movements and facial expressions to help out our conversation.  I think that would be the attitude that is shown within two groups of different cultures as well, where the “higher” culture sort of looks down at the other culture in a soft kind of way.

Part 2:

1)   Because you did say that we needed to do the experiment for the whole 15 minutes, I would have to say that we struggled, but did last the 15 minutes.  Being that I did this experiment with my girlfriend, knowing how I would be communicating, it mad not only her, but me frustrated as well.  Being that we’re usually talking in a way that causes us to laugh or have “awe” moments, this made the experiment much more difficult than it needed to be.

2)   This affected my partner because unable to show any emotion as well as movement to confirm or not confirm something, this made her rather mad and irritated her.

3)   Non-speech language is very important to our language and it definitely makes a different when communicating with certain people.  It shows attitude more than any other emotion.  With no other way to communicate, there is no emotion, so even if you were to say something like “I miss you”, without the emotion, it almost means nothing.

4)   There are definitely people that can’t read body language, as an example (just in general) that person that everyone know who can’t take a hint, when give the facial expression and still won’t leave you alone until you just walk away.  The ability to read body language and facial expression is a gift and should be held on to as generations pass because without it, the world will end up emotionless, making everything pointless and unneeded, but that is just my opinion.  There is not a time where I can think of a benefit to not being able to read body language would come in handy, the world can only benefit with it.