Nonverbal Observation Paper
Nonverbal in Context
Observation #1
Date &Time: November 19th at 7-8 pm.
Location: Church (Friday, Youth service)
Participants: The Pastor and the church members
In this observation there was a series of nonverbal communication. I will start with Kinesics (facial). In this church service people have happy faces and are worshiping God, some are bored because they don’t really understand what is happening; others are excited because God let them experience his presence, and last but not least mostly everyone have outgoing faces because our Pastor is singing a song that says there’s no better greeting than the greeting of Christian. People start to handshake and hug each other (Kinesics; Gestures). When it’s the pastor people use both …show more content…
There are a lot of vocal characteristics like laughing/ crying or mumbling / screaming. They are either laughing about a joke, crying because they are suffering, mumbling because their talking to God, and screaming because there are rebuking some demon out of someone to liberate them. Mostly everyone has a high pitch in order to catch people’s attention. In the other hand there are those who decide to stay silent; these are the one that are the vocal segregates. They chose to respond to anyone’s conversation with “ummm’s , ers, oki or simply a yeah”. In the proxemics area people are sitting next to those they feel comfortable with and those who don’t have a person with whom they feel comfortable with, are just sitting alone or simply forced to sit beside someone (due to the lack of chairs). Some leave chairs in between each others to let people know that they have a proxemics bubble and don’t want to be approached by others. At the same time there was some Haptics touches happening. There’s the ritualistic touch, playful touch, control touch, positive effect touch, accidental touch and the hybrid touch. Some are shaking hands and hugging, others are tickleling some of the children or people are laughing and hitting each other, the pastor is patting people who have grown spiritually and those who have been coming to the church services, there is some youth the touch each other in a positive way …show more content…
In this church there was a schedule made for the days of service. They go based on the microtime and it is polychromic. There is service on Sundays; regular service, Tuesdays; Bible study, Thursdays Children service or prayer service, and on Friday youth service or gentleman/ lady service. There people are always assigned what to do for the service, but there is always someone that will be multitasking. The service is composed of reading the bible, praise & worship, prayer for the sick, and all the church members petitions, offering song to pick up any offering, prayer, parts given to those that were chosen by the pastor to bring something for God, and then the preacher does his sermon. They know at what time they start, but there is no ending time. Usually the church service starts at 7 pm and it can end at 10, 11, or 12. The service starts formal and ends up informal. People talk about their past, present and future. They talk about their past to let people know about their testimony this helps people’s faith grow more and more, they talk about their present to help people cope with whatever their passing through and they talk about their future so that their believe in God will be there for generations. They just want people to know that God is an awesome God and he provides and blesses us each and every
Observation #1
Date &Time: November 19th at 7-8 pm.
Location: Church (Friday, Youth service)
Participants: The Pastor and the church members
In this observation there was a series of nonverbal communication. I will start with Kinesics (facial). In this church service people have happy faces and are worshiping God, some are bored because they don’t really understand what is happening; others are excited because God let them experience his presence, and last but not least mostly everyone have outgoing faces because our Pastor is singing a song that says there’s no better greeting than the greeting of Christian. People start to handshake and hug each other (Kinesics; Gestures). When it’s the pastor people use both …show more content…
There are a lot of vocal characteristics like laughing/ crying or mumbling / screaming. They are either laughing about a joke, crying because they are suffering, mumbling because their talking to God, and screaming because there are rebuking some demon out of someone to liberate them. Mostly everyone has a high pitch in order to catch people’s attention. In the other hand there are those who decide to stay silent; these are the one that are the vocal segregates. They chose to respond to anyone’s conversation with “ummm’s , ers, oki or simply a yeah”. In the proxemics area people are sitting next to those they feel comfortable with and those who don’t have a person with whom they feel comfortable with, are just sitting alone or simply forced to sit beside someone (due to the lack of chairs). Some leave chairs in between each others to let people know that they have a proxemics bubble and don’t want to be approached by others. At the same time there was some Haptics touches happening. There’s the ritualistic touch, playful touch, control touch, positive effect touch, accidental touch and the hybrid touch. Some are shaking hands and hugging, others are tickleling some of the children or people are laughing and hitting each other, the pastor is patting people who have grown spiritually and those who have been coming to the church services, there is some youth the touch each other in a positive way …show more content…
In this church there was a schedule made for the days of service. They go based on the microtime and it is polychromic. There is service on Sundays; regular service, Tuesdays; Bible study, Thursdays Children service or prayer service, and on Friday youth service or gentleman/ lady service. There people are always assigned what to do for the service, but there is always someone that will be multitasking. The service is composed of reading the bible, praise & worship, prayer for the sick, and all the church members petitions, offering song to pick up any offering, prayer, parts given to those that were chosen by the pastor to bring something for God, and then the preacher does his sermon. They know at what time they start, but there is no ending time. Usually the church service starts at 7 pm and it can end at 10, 11, or 12. The service starts formal and ends up informal. People talk about their past, present and future. They talk about their past to let people know about their testimony this helps people’s faith grow more and more, they talk about their present to help people cope with whatever their passing through and they talk about their future so that their believe in God will be there for generations. They just want people to know that God is an awesome God and he provides and blesses us each and every