Verbal And Nonverbal Communication Analysis

What would you do if you want to convey an idea in your mind? What would you do if you want to share messages with friends or family members? What would you do if you want to express your current feeling and emotion? Over the past decades, communication is an essential ongoing process in social life. The word, “communication” has been highlighted in Western countries such as English, French and Scottish during seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Simonson, Peck, Craig & Jackson, 2013). In addition, scholars have come out with several communication models such as the linear communication model by Shannon and Weaver in 1949, the interactional model of communication by Schramm in 1954 and the transactional model of communication by Barnlund

It can be either in written or spoken form. In contrast, nonverbal communication is a method of communication by using body languages such as gesture, posture, facial expression, voice, eye contact and so on. It is a form of expression through study of one’s behavior and act.

As a saying goes, “action speaks louder than word”. In fact, as highlighted by Burgoon and Bacue (2003), nonverbal cues were estimated transfers 60 percent of the social meanings in daily communication. Are different from verbal, nonverbal communication is given the priority because nonverbal cues are usually unaware and free from manipulate (Burgoon & Guerrero, 1994; Verderber, Verderber & Sellnow, 2009).

However, an effective communication process consists of both verbal and nonverbal communication simultaneously. The key for being successful quality communication process is depend on how one digest the message content effectively. Lunenburg (2010) stated that a quality communication process takes account to several elements which included sender, receiver, encode, decode, feedback and noise (refer to Figure 1

The poll also shown that about 28 percent of them believed that some people able to engage with the dead people.

Over the years, the traditional community especially Chinese folk have conducted the trance ritual of spiritual communication. And, spiritual communication is a form of communication that orientated both verbal and nonverbal aspects. As stated by Chen (2001), the phenomenon of spiritual communication is famous in mainland China and Taiwan. And, Taiwanese take it serious to spirit issue. Magnier (2006) reported that 87 percent of Taiwanese believed that the existence of spirit and they agreed it is better to not anger the spirit.

Are different from other type of communication, in Chinese religion, spiritual communication required a medium to connect and interact with the deities and the supernatural. In such case, spirit medium acts as the connection bridge for folk in order to communicate with the deities and the supernatural. Not everyone can be the spirit medium. To be spirit medium, particular skills is required and only those people who is gifted the skills able to engage with the deities and the supernatural. In Chinese religion, the spirit medium that conducts the spiritual communication is called as dang-ki or ji-tong (Chen, 2001; Chao,