Question

Create a nonverbal training guide for someone who wants to travel and experience Nigerian culture. In your training guide, you need to explain what to do and what not to do in nonverbal communication as well as provide explanations for why behaviors are either appropriate or inappropriate (ground your justification in scholarly research on cultural norms).

The training guide needs to cover each of these nonverbal communication dimensions:

Kinesics

Proxemics

Haptics

Paralinguistics

Chronemics

Physical appearance/attire

Oculesics

Olfactics

The training guide must also include a visual element to illustrate dos and don’ts.

Include specific warnings that address key differences in nonverbal symbols between the culture you are studying and the culture of your audience.

Answer 1

-------------------Nigerian culture------------------

The culture of Nigeria is shaped by Nigeria's ------( Nigeria, offically the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean.) Multiple ethnic groups-------( An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation ).

Kinesics ----------- The study of the way in which certain body movements and gestures serve as a form of non-verbal communication. “Surprise” is called “ìyanu”, an “open mouth”, whereas anger resides in the belly and is called ibinu. Cooling down is expressed by the gesture of “f’?w?? w??’nú”, putting one hand (“?w??”) on the chest and “letting it fall” (“w??”) downwards to the belly.

Proxemics ---------The branch of knowledge that deals with the amount of space that people feel it necessary to set between themselves and others. Here we took the example of Nigirian relegion.

Haptics ------- It means by which people and other animals communicate via touching.

In Nigeria, young people usually greet each other in a special way, where they snap their fingers in the process of a handshake

  

If a woman offers her hand, I take it gently, bend my middle finger inward and make a tickling motion.... followed by a sug   

Paralinguistics ---------- It the study of vocal (and sometimes non-vocal) signals beyond the basic verbal message or speech. Also known as vocalics. It includes accent pitch etc of nigirans that you can can learn by listining.

Chronemics -------------- It is the study of the role of time in communication, how one can percive other.

Physical appearance/attire -------- As it clearly defined by name, appearance of a person   

Oculesics ---------- It is a subcategory of kinesics, is the study of eye-related nonverbal communication, eye behavior, gaze, and eye movement.

Olfactics ----------- It is a sense of smell which use in nonverbal communication.

This could be a simple guide which will help you to travel in nigerian country. For more query please vsit again.

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