Breaking the Proxemics’ Personal Space Non-Verbal Communication Rule to an Individual

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The Effects of Breaking the Proxemics’ Personal Space Nonverbal Communication Rule to an Individual University of Maryland University College Introduction Communication is a conscious or unconscious, intentional or unintentional process in which feelings and ideas are expressed as verbal and/or nonverbal messages that are sent, received, and comprehended (Berko, Wolvin, Wolvin, & Aitken, 2012, p. 3). Communication has few components namely the source or sender, receiver, message, feedback and communication noise. Source or sender is the one who encodes the message, the receiver is the one who receives and decodes the message, the message it is the communication itself, feedback is the reply to a message and communication noise is the potential interference in the communication process. There are two ways of communicating, namely verbal and nonverbal communication. Verbal communication is a one way of communication that uses words. Nonverbal communication is defined as certain ways that a person communicates his thoughts and meanings without actually using any word. Messages can be communicated through gestures and touch, by body language or posture, by facial expression and eye contact, which are all considered types of nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication is a rule to govern that enables people to get along without negatively interfering with each other. There are some subcategory of the study of nonverbal communication which are haptics (touch), kinesics (body movement), vocalics (paralanguage), and chronemics(structure of time) and Proxemics the study of how people use and perceive their social and personal space (Berko, Wolvin, Wolvin, & Aitken, 2012, p. 70). The theory of Proxemics is separated into two overarching categories: territory and personal space (Moore, 2010, p. 8). Personal space is the area around a person that if someone

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