LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 10 : 2 February 2010
ISSN 1930-2940

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Insight through Body Language and
Non-verbal Communication References In Tirukkural

R. Subramani, Ph.D.

Nonverbal Communication may be defined as transfer of messages without words. It comprises visible expressions like touching, eye contacts and gazes, facial expressions and intonations, as well as less noticeable messages like dress, posture and space between human beings. There are clear distinctions between the meanings we offer in words and the meanings we give off in non-verbal signs. Senders and receivers simultaneously encode and decode the meanings of the messages in non-verbal communication and it can be considered as an interactive medium in human communication. Around sixty five percent of the social meanings of the messages are exchanged with others non-verbally. Human emotions can effectively be transformed through nonverbal communication and are likely to influence others' perceptions.

One of the ancient Tamil scriptures, which is popularly known as Tirukkural, has eminently articulated the use of body language in interpersonal communication in its couplets.

This paper tries to explore the insight through body language and Non verbal communication references in Tirukkural.

Introduction

Renowned scholars have affirmed communication as social interaction through message (Fiske: 1990), a process in which participants create and share information with one another in order to reach a mutual understanding (Rogers: 1995), an activity in which symbolic content is not merely transmitted from one source to another, but exchanged between human agents, who interact within a shared situational and/or discursive context (Price: 1997), a process whereby people in groups, using the tools provided by their culture, create collective representations of reality (Trenholm:1999), and a process in which there is some predictable relation between the message transmitted and the message received (Graber:2003). They articulate the social, cultural, behavioral and cognitive characteristics of communication.

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Compounds in Tolkappiyam and Balavyakaranam - A Comparison | Automatic Nominal Morphological Recognizer and Analyzer for Sanskrit: Method and Implementation | A Critical Study of The Wasteland - Poetry as Metaphor | Communicative Language Teaching - An Overview | Cinema and the New Media | Culture and Second Language Learning and Teaching - An Exploration in Tamil | R. K. Narayan's Humour in Swami and Friends | Towards Meeting Global Challenge - Cyber Based Instruction in Foreign Language Teaching | Novel Technologies, Engines and Mobiles in Language Learning | Role of Language in Effective Managerial Communication | Pragmatic Analysis of Politeness Theory | The Varied Horizon of Multimedia & Web Tools for English Language Acquisition in the Information Age | Challenges and Problems in the Teaching of Grammar | Some Features of Tirukkural Telugu Translations | Issues of Social and Ideological Empowerment in Contemporary Indian Women Writing in English | Does Stress-Shift Lead to Word-Class Conversion in English? | Insight through Body Language and Non-verbal Communication References in Tirukkural | Think-Aloud Protocol -- Elicitation of Strategy Use and Solution to Learning Problem | Voice of the Voiceless: Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape and George Ryga's Indian - A Comparative Study | Inside the Haveli: A Study | HOME PAGE of February 2010 Issue | HOME PAGE | CONTACT EDITOR

R. Subramani, Ph.D.
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
Periyar University
Salem 636 011
Tamil Nadu, India
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