Communication And Verbal Communication: The Importance Of Communication

Communication is an ongoing process. People communicate with one another not only verbally but together with the nonverbal cues. The idea of conducting this research come up after realizing that nonverbal cues playing an important role not only as an impression but also how people actually perceived one another. Communication can be influenced by many factors such as the environment, the genders of both speaker and listener. Men and women themselves has their own way in perceiving and understanding one another. However, the most influential determiner that influenced the factors among genders is the society. The question is how well different genders perceived the nonverbal cues, how actually the cues help in determining people behavior towards

We live in the world where people communicate everywhere and in order to achieve everything that we want such as ideas, love and friendship, we need to communicate. Communication enable people to create and maintain relationships. Communication is the base which tied people together. Communication as defined by Dobkin and Pace (2003); the process of creating and sharing meaning using the symbols as the medium. Communication can be expressed either through verbal or nonverbal communication. Verbal communication where messages expressed through the formal language, either oral, written or involving the use of words while nonverbal communication expressed through the use of symbols (Anderson, 1999) includes gestures, body language, eye contact, tone of voice, touch and smell. Body language as an example, most communication experts such as (Eisenberg & Smith, 1971; Harrison, 1974; Burgoon & Saine, 1978; DeVito, 1989) describe body language in two views. First, the word ‘body’ itself is too narrow to describe the variety of the nonverbal cues and second, nonverbal cues is not a communication. In other words, verbal communication includes words and nonverbal communication, non-words. Still, the power of nonverbal communication is overpass the verbal

(2016), an effective communication can happen when the messages are not distorted by the obstacles such as emotions, silence, selective, perceptions, noise and gender differences where this factors can occur anytime during the communication process. Effective communication can be successful when the process of conveying the message from sender to receiver is clear and concise information. In terms of gender and communication, there are a variety of topics and discussions can be relate. These include differences of men and women in terms of noise in conversations, gender bias, inequality in conversation and how gender affect the communication pattern differently in various ways. The impact of gender covers in every aspect of language, speech, social interactions and behavior. The gender stereotype can be seen in the personal attributes where women associated with affectionate and emotional such as afraid and annoyed (Hartman & Judd, 1978; Lee, 2014a) and mainly described related to their age and appearance (Carroll & Kowitz, 1994; Lee, 2014a). In contrast, men are likely associated with aggressiveness, argumentative and competitive (Evans & Davies, 2000) and also physical and mental strength with wealth and success (Carroll & Kowitz, 1994; Lee,