In the movie Inside Out, there are many examples of nonverbal communication.
According to Floyd (2011), nonverbal communications are “behaviors and
characteristics that convey meaning without using words” (p. 179).
The
movie Inside Out, is about a girl named
Riley and her emotions. Inside Riley’s head, there is a whole new world.
Headquarters is where her emotions live; they help Riley get through her
everyday life. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear are the five emotions
that control Riley.
In
the movie, the emotions use many nonverbal cues to display how they are
feeling. They each display many emotions (not just the emotion that there name
describes). The emotions do not try to conceal information from one another by
hiding there non-verbal cues. They embrace them to show what they are feeling. In
this clip, Anger uses many non-verbal cues that fall under the different
non-verbal channels. A non-verbal channels are the various forms in which
communication takes place (Floyd, 2011, p.181). We use our different senses to
pick up non-verbal cues. We use our vision to pick up the non-verbal cues Anger
uses such as his facial expression, body language, gestures, and personal
appearance. We use our sense of hearing to hear the different tone and volume in
Anger’s voice when he gets mad compared to when he is not agitated. When Anger
gets mad, he clenches his fists, shoots fire from the top of his head, and
yells. He also becomes very aggressive.
People
use non-verbal communication in their everyday lives, whether they are aware of
it or not. Some of the many non-verbal communications we use include many, if
not all, of the same as seen with Anger (facial expressions, body language,
gestures, personal appearance, tone and volume of the speech). Most of the
non-verbal messages that we send are involuntary; this is why most people trust
the non-verbal cue over what the person is saying.
References
Docter , P., & Del Carmen , R. (Directors).
(2015). Inside Out [Motion Picture].
Flyod, K. (2011). Interpersonal Communication.
Boston: McGraw Hill.
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