Verbal Communication

VERBAL COMMUNICATION

Theme 3

Table Manners

These apply to the Americas and most of Europe. If you’re elsewhere, do some research beforehand.

The fork goes on the left. The spoon and knife go on the right. Food items go on the left, so your bread plate is on your left. Drinks, including coffee cups, should be on the right. When sitting at a banquet table, you may begin eating when two people to your left and right are served. If you haven’t been served, but most of your table has, encourage others to start. Reach only for items in front of you, ask that other items be passed by a neighbor. Offer to the left; pass to the right, although once things start being passed, go with the flow.

Culture of communication includes culture of verbal and non-verbal communication. Culture of verbal communication assumes the choice of language means for the human activities in certain communicative situations.

Verbal communication is when we communicate our message verbally to whoever is receiving the message.

Verbal communication is communication by means of Language, using words with their meanings. Language is the main means of human communication; it provides for verbal сommunication.

A language is a system (code) of signals (voice sounds, gestures or written symbols) which communicate thoughts or feelings. Human spoken and written languages can be described as a system of symbols (lexemes) and the grammars (rules) by which the symbols are manipulated.

If you want to communicate a message verbally, you need words. Words are symbols, or verbal signals, that represent things and ideas. In the English language, we have 750,000 words, although most of us recognize only about 20,000 of them. To create a thought, we arrange the words according to the rules of grammar, putting the various parts of speech in the proper sequence.

We use a multitude of verbal signals. The words we use, our accent, tone, volume, speech errors all give information about us. More information we get from the structure of sentences, the use of repetition, the linking of thoughts and ideas, the variety of words used.

Language plays an important role in cross-cultural interaction, since it is a keeper and an exponent of national culture. Language is an effective tool of cross-cultural communication as a translator of national-cultural identity of nations.

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