Interpersonal Communication Essay

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INTRODUCTION - INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION: Interpersonal communication is the process by which people exchange information, feelings, and meaning through verbal and nonverbal messages: it is face-to-face communication. (www.skillsyouneed.com) Furthermore, interpersonal communication is not only about what is actually said, as in the language used, but how it is said and the non-verbal messages sent through the tone of voice, facial expressions, gestures and body language. When two or more people are in the same place and are aware of each other’s presence, communication is taking place, no matter how subtle or unintentional. Without speech, an observer may be using cues of as stated above: facial expression, posture and dress to form an impression of the other’s intentions, emotional state, role, and personality (www.skillsyouneed.com). Although communication may be not intended, people receive messages through such forms of non-verbal behaviour. Below, I will describe and reflect critically on the interpersonal communication skills and behaviours often referring to the movie: ‘The Notebook’. SUMMARY OF THE NOTEBOOK: The Notebook is a 2004 romantic drama film starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as a young couple who fall in love during the 1940s. Their story is narrated from the present day by an elderly man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story of two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival and they share an idyllic summer love affair. They are separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's unwealthy family. They ban her from seeing Noah, whom they called "trash, trash, trash" and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie becomes a volunteer nurse in a hospital for wounded soldiers, where she meets an officer named Lon Hammond, a young lawyer
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