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Lead: The article 'Communication' dove deeply into all aspects of communication wether it be through types, barriers, models, and effectiveness. This article also goes into great detail about the similarities and differences that come with verbal and non-verbal communication forms such as speaking versus sign-language.

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Verbal Communication:

Verbal communication is the spoken or written conveyance of a message. Human language can be defined as a system of symbols (also known as lexemes) and the grammars (rules) by which the symbols are manipulated. The word "language" also refers to common properties of languages. Language learning normally occurs most intensively during human childhood. Most of the large number of human languages use patterns of sound or gesture for symbols which enable communication with others around them. Languages tend to share certain properties, although there are exceptions. Constructed languages such as Esperanto, programming languages, and various mathematical formalisms are not necessarily restricted to the properties shared by human languages.

As previously mentioned, language can be characterized as symbolic. Charles Ogden and I.A Richards developed The Triangle of Meaning model to explain the symbol (the relationship between a word), the referent (the thing it describes), and the meaning (the thought associated with the word and the thing).

Non-Verbal Communication:

Communicators' diverse efforts to produce and interpret meaning in language are functionally constrained by that language's prototypical phonology (sounds that typically appear in a language), morphology (what counts as a word), syntax (word-order), semantics (conventional meaning of words), and pragmatics (which meanings are conventional to which contexts).

The meanings that are attached to words can be literal, or otherwise known as denotative; relating to the topic being discussed, or, the meanings take context and relationships into account, otherwise known as connotative; relating to the feelings, history, and power dynamics of the communicators.

Contrary to popular belief, signed languages of the world (e.g., American Sign Language) are considered to be verbal communication because their sign vocabulary, grammar, and other linguistic structures abide by all the necessary classifications as spoken languages. There are however, nonverbal elements to signed languages, such as the speed, intensity, and size of signs that are made. A signer might sign "yes" in response to a question, or they might sign a sarcastic-large slow yes to convey a different nonverbal meaning. The sign yes is the verbal message while the other movements add nonverbal meaning to the message. article

The History of American Sign Language:

Sign Language began in the 1814s when in the US deaf education began to be enforced. There is no record of any form of sign language before this year. Before the 1814s (early 1800s) there were only accounted for a few thousand deaf Americans whom within these people, some systems were created in deaf communities to attempt to communication. These old systems are now-a-days considered to be Old American Sign Language.

Non-Verbal Communication other than Sign Language:

Though sign language is the main form of non-verbal communication for deaf individuals, people who aren't hard of hearing also use non-verbal communication. Some examples are facial expressions, posture, and gestures.

References:

Jay, Michelle (2019-10-01). "History of American Sign Language | Start ASL". Retrieved 2022-09-27

"Nonverbal Communication and Body Language - HelpGuide.org". https://www.helpguide.org. Retrieved 2022-09-27