Blog Assignment week 4

We have a unique way of perceiving ourselves, others and the world around us, and we communicate with others based on those perceptions.  Perception is a cognitive process through which we interpret our experiences and come to our own unique understandings (O’Hair & Wiemann, 2010).

What surprised me the most is the changing of the switching of accommodation language of style?  Sometime, I do not know that I am doing what my son and girlfriend said, I am doing, but I guess, I have been doing the accommodation communication for so long that it comes out of me naturally.  The other insight that i have gain is that public speaking can be challenging. When the nonverbal body language said something different than what audience wants to hear. For example; when the speaker is talking, and the topic does not interest the receiver or the speaker; your eye behavior is not in contact with your audiences; the speaker try to avoid talking, words come out with ("um.") The head held down more than up as if in shame.

Reference:

O'Hair, D., & Wiemann, M. (2012). Real communication: An introduction. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's.