Just got this, Folks...perhaps you others investigating on-line, literate,
socio-cultural spaces (such as the one in which we're communing,
presently, *embedded* we be, as the phrase has it ;-} ), perhaps some of
you folks have heard of this research, as well.
THE 7%, 38%, 55% MYTH (of *nonverbal dominance)
Dr. C. E. "Buzz" Johnson
http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/CDA/NonverbalDominanceMyth.html
This article (excuse the length, copyrighting asked for complete
text to be transmitted, I put the article on-line, see link) goes
a long way to affirm my thesis underneath my proposal:
That...
...social-constructivist learning/meaning-making
not only CAN occur in virtual cultural spaces
(e-mediated milieux, etc.), but can occur with as much
intensity in depth, breadth, AND authenticity as in more
traditional, physically-mediated spaces. AND...
...since it occurs, it can be assessed and evaluated
using appropriate ontologic frameworks of inquiry.
In fact, my *hunch* is and has been all along that SINCE
meaning-making and other socially constructed knowledge
formations take place in recursive, dialogic media such as
language and by analogy, other lingusitically-literate (ontologic
redundant construct?) spaces--my hunch is that asynchronous media
allow this to occur so much the *better* than synchronous types
(such as physical *presence*) due to various advantages, those
salient qualities of the discursive space, itself, that I am
presently researching in my dissertation, interspersed into the
infrastructure by *reflection*, *mulling*, *parallel processing
(learning)*, and other such inwardly recursive moments on the
part of the participants (interlocutors, that is).
At any rate, what do you think of this article and its critique
that I fwd to you from the DEOS list? ;-} rap.
<REF>:
THE 7%, 38%, 55% MYTH (of *nonverbal dominance)
Dr. C. E. "Buzz" Johnson
http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/CDA/NonverbalDominanceMyth.html
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [DEOS-L] The myth of "nonverbal dominance"
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:20:51 -0500
Reply-To: DEOS-L - The Distance Education Online
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From: "Steve Eskow" <drseskow@cox.net>
The note below from L. Michael Hall and the article by
Dr. Johnson will be of interest to those who continue to
believe that "one picture is worth a thousand words" and
similar statements about gestural communication contain truths
of value to distance educators.
("NLP," of course, refers to "NeuroLinguistic Programming".)
Steve Eskow
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Meta-States in NLP Patterns Series
What carries the Most Impact in Communication?
Verbal or Non-Verbal Channels?
I first read the following article by "Buzz" Johnson in 1994
when it was published in Anchor Point. Having worked in
communications as a trainer and therapist I knew that the old
statement that 93% of communication is non-verbal was wrong.
I would have known that from having tried to watch and
understand movies on planes when I didn't buy the headphones.
Watching their faces wasn't enough. When the movie was in a
foreign language, I'd get more of a sense of when the actors
were angry, upset, in love, etc. But that was about it.
This article confirms the fact that most information which we
receive from each other in our communications is not non-verbal
information and not conveyed by the non-verbal channels of tone,
facial expressions, or body "language." No. It is rather our
meta-representational system of language that allows us to
convey most of the information in our lives. Try to "say"
(send the informational content) that "Supper will be ready
at 5:45 p.m." with just some tones and facial expressions! This
highlights the crucial role that the higher linguistic systems
play in our lives. We need words to convey higher level as
beliefs, concepts, understandings, ideas, plans, meanings, etc.
So while primary states are valuable and important, meta-states
are much more so. They truly govern our experiences inasmuch as
they set the conceptual and semantic frames that we live in.
Enjoy.
L. Michael Hall
THE 7%, 38%, 55% MYTH
Dr. C. E. "Buzz" Johnson
http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/CDA/NonverbalDominanceMyth.html
Author
Dr. C. E. "Buzz" Johnson, retired Optometrist, has been through
Master Practitioner and Trainer's Training. He has been
researching the power of words in a variety of different
disciplines, medicine, education, addictions, relationships,
psycho-neuro-immunology, hypnosis, psychotherapy, etc.
Quoted by Permission from Dr. Johnson, Published originally in
Anchor Point, July 1994.
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