The Evolution of Language

The Evolution of Language

Verbal and non-verbal communication are highly significant factors of survival and vary both socially and culturally. Communication, indisputably, is the most dynamically important factor in regards to survival and communicatory understanding of survival in a given society. This is something highly important to effective adaptation as well as understanding the opinions, state of mind, as well as the needs of those around you. This conflictual issue revolved around, based on my experience, mostly interpersonal as well as group assimilations as well as achievement in regards to the interactions in which occur within these two social situations. The most prevalent  issue was the absence of verbal expression in detailed and precise words or expressions of concepts and ideas. In the experiment the group majority of individuals involved within the experiment interpreted my non-verbal gestures rather successfully. During this experiment I have found that non-verbal communication was not as difficult to be interpreted. However, one thing that was kept into consideration was the culture we have manifested in our society and have familiarized culturally. It is very simple as people of  the American western culture to understand specific gestures or signals in which are being circulated interpersonally as well as one a wider level. My partner’s of the experiment did not change to accommodate the experiment, let alone my lack of ability to fully communicate.  However, quite contrary I felt that I was the individual who felt obliged to accommodate or forcefully over express my opinions or emotions to better accommodate the majority. This portion of the experiment certainly appeared to be more difficult in my experience opposed to verbal expression.

            The individual’s involved in the language experiment consisted of eight people. My colleagues were in charge of, and initiated the topics in the non-verbal application of the experiment. During the questioning, mostly regarding opinions and feedback on the given topic, I would say I felt rather un-included. Based on the experiment I have concluded that many minority individuals who are not well adapted fell excluded are unable to express their needs, both physically and emotionally. Based on observation of the language experiment, many individuals of the majority to notice or understand the individual who is unable to successfully express oneself; for they are unable to express or contribute to common conversation. For example, feelings, emotions, needs, attitudes, and opinions are mutually suppressed when neither individual can communicate effectively. In my study it appears that this may culturally have a lot to do with power balance, majority trends or social construction, as well as holding the standard of the given society as interpreted in a macro-comparative terms, results in the inability to survive for those who are unable to adapt.    

            Though the duration of this experiment one must consider the different power and face societies as well as how denotative content is interpreted differently connotatively different universally. Based on the experiment conducted it appeared as though the group expressing vocally appeared to have the advantage. Based on observation, although nonverbal communication was easily readable by my partners, the non-verbal gestures did not contain detail or specific expressive desires in regards to survival and satisfaction. I have additionally found that ignoring the minority isn’t always intentional. At times it is socially coerced and even others participating do not notice the absence of minority input. Modern society focuses more on psychological and empathetic impact opposed to survival needs of post societal historical contextual needs. Today in modern American western culture we additionally have different needs and priorities regarding surviva needs as well as what we connotatively consider means of survival.

           

            In my personal experience based on the designed experiment, I felt as though ones opinions who are based on minority, are of less importance of the majority group. It appears as the individual who is less adaptable commincatorily, may be adaptively, socially, and institutionally suppressed. My partners during the experiment did not respond. It was much more expected for the minority to respond and accommodate the majority and assimilate. In group settings it is priority to accommodate and settle for the best of the given majority of society. This is additionally noted in the difficulty to accommodate or even isolate ones self to accommodate one who is not a part of the majority. This experiment, in my opinion, based on what was conducted, revealed a repressive side of social interaction when lacks of specific communicatory skills are present within a interactive group.

           

            Non-verbal communication is highly significant in regards to connotations about universally dynamic denotative terms and references. Culture has much to do with the ways in which culture connotation and face work as well as power distance has an effect on interpreting others state of minds and needs. This type of communicatory expectations is based on the given society and familiarized interpretation of body language and terms which may be denotatively universal but cross-culturally diverse.

            The acquisition of skill regarding learning face work cross culturally and interpersonally as well as non verbal gestures are highly significant in successfully expressing ones needs socially, institutionally, as well as physically. Based on this study I feel It is similar to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and how we need to satisfy certain needs in order to achieve happiness or self actualization. This androgynous behavior and cross culture understanding leads to better expressions of needs, thus leading to better survival skills.

            Some individuals do not appear to be comprehensive of body language. In a majority I do not feel this is something intentional. I feel as though it is natural to adapt to what is the majority or acceptable; in other words a sense of social coercion. Additionally it is almost natural to experience one individual reacting to the most common or expected language or gesture in which is familiarized. Body language may be deceiving when others may be either trying to create a façade of emotions or they are from a different culture in which their connotations differ from our own.