- Verbal Communication - i.e. Speech, video conferencing, telephone communication.
- Written Communication - i.e. email, writing a letter, SMS, Instant Messaging
- Electronic Communication - (sub-cat) SMS, Phone, Email, IM, Video Conferencing
- Physical Communication - Body language, listening, repeating key aspects of speakers comments
Communication in social situations:
If I was speaking to a friend then my communication would apear relaxed and not particularly stressed. My body language and verbal language would be informal, this may appear through the use of abbreviations, slang language, using a regional dialect/accent.
In a conversation with an employer my language would change drastically from that of speaking to a friend. My communication could perhaps appear stressed and nervous as this is a person I would have never met with before. My body language would be sharp and focused, i.e. sitting with shoulders up and back rested on the chair back and my verbal language would be pronouncing words in full to show knowledge as well as tuning my speech for this situation being careful not to offend the conversators.Dialects mainly consists of vocals and pronunciations. A dialect could be a word that is not in the dictionary but is used in a specific region, or a word that is in the dictionary but is not said as it is intended. An example of pronunciation in the midlands is water, often pronounced "War-Ta". An example of a word used to represent something being good is "sick" where it's dictionary meaning is a physical or mental function. Vocals affect how we pronounce words but as people are so used to speaking this can cuase the mis-pronunciation of words, however, people can still speak in standard english as this is not a formality.
Accents are a regional case and are always specific to a region, these are caused by human nature, if you are raised as a child by australian parents, living in the midlands, if you listen to both accent sets then you will have a mixed accent, however, if you were born in the midlands, and raised in australia then you will learn an australian accent. It is down to the sounds you hear, not a personality you are born with.
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