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Chinese manager really under stress (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 5

By: Ulrich Sollmann
30-09-2012
Body language, intercultural, News, society

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Chinese manager really under stress (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 5

under stressThis Chinese manager is asked again for the third time, to give a certain answer. He knows how the panel functions and yet though there is a good simultaneous translation he utters towards the moderator to repeat the question. He does this for three times though the question was very clearly expressed. And then suddenly he started answering, though the moderator did not repeat the question again. It seemed that the Chinese manager had to get accustomed to the stress situation, being asked. ( though he knew that he was asked )

And he does not only utter with words but also with his body-language. He looks …………………

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Facial position instead of facial expression (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 3

By: Ulrich Sollmann
23-09-2012
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

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Facial position instead of facial expression (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 3

The Chinese manager talks with a strong voice, expresses directly and clearly what he wants to say. He now and then looks at the moderator and faces him as the important counterpart in this rhetoric structure. It seems that he not really directly seeks for direct (eye-) contact to the audience. He is there on the panel, knows about his role to answer the question and to be there as the invited representative.

Of course he shows facial expression but it seems that this expression is more likely to be his attitude rather than to support his words and his habit of talking, in order to support his words and the for the moment specific meaning.

Facial expression seems for him (and the Chinese culture ?) to be more like a sequence of familiar “facial positions”. With whatever meaning at all. And yet……………………….

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Friendly souverenity of a German Manager – Managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – (video) 2

By: Ulrich Sollmann
22-09-2012
nonverbal communication, society

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Friendly souverenity of a German Manager – Managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – (video) 2

This German manager looks very friendly. His facial expression is open and his eyes want to reach everybody on the panel and in the audience. His facial expression supports his words by an obvious modulation of intonation.

Looking around to the others on the panel brings up to my mind the idea of: making contact to everybody there, ant taking this as important nonverbal communication, shows that it is important for him to be in contact with, in order to answer the question or to show his position, concerning the one or the other issue he is asked to talk about. Behaving like this gives  a kind of sovereignty. This is ……………..

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Managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – basic difference between Germans and Chinese – 1

By: Ulrich Sollmann
21-09-2012
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – basic difference between Germans and Chinese – 1

Basic differences – observing managers on stage while joining a panel discussion at the China-Germany business forum in Cologne 14th of September in Cologne.

You can at once realize basic obvious differences in behavior patterns.  While the Chinese managers mostly directly face the audience or the moderator answering their questions, German managers more often look around to the audience, the moderator, the other managers on the panel and back. They instead of the Chinese managers take the panel and the stage as a space where they move around by looking. Answering the questions changes into a scenario of a visual dialogue. This dialogue is supported by a rich facial expression.

Chinese managers instead of this more often look ……….

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Three faces – one face

By: Ulrich Sollmann
06-08-2012
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three faces – one face

The older you get, the more you’re yourself

I’m convinced about this wisdom of life.

Of course, if you look at these three women on the photo you see different faces. There’s quite a lot of similar expression on the grandma’s face and the daughter’s face concerning the nose, forehead and the upper part of the face. There is less similarity to the granddaughter there. On the other hand there’s ………….

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Faces….. 2

By: Ulrich Sollmann
28-07-2012
Body language, psychology, science

Faces….. 2

well I was asked to say something more about the meaning of these faces. To make it short, I start on the left side, the top row:

  • sadness, depression
  • surprise
  • joy, happiness
  • disgust…………..
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Faces……. 1

By: Ulrich Sollmann
27-07-2012
Body language

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faces…….. 1

thanks to Jinyang via facebook

wonderful facial expression.

Do you remember when you felt like this?

Do you remember what happened in those days?

Do you remember, with whom ………………

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An aesthetical analysis of body language in conversation

By: Ulrich Sollmann
26-07-2012
Body language, psychology, society

An aesthetical analysis of body language in conversation

HUANG He 1, ZHAN Qi-yi 2, ZHANG Yi-jun 1 (School of Liberal Arts, Kunming Science and Engineering University, Kunming 650224,China)  
Aesthetical analysis of body language in a conversation is an important part of the aesthetical judgment analysis of conversational discourse, which includes the nice look of facial expression as its outer form and the meaning implied in such expression, the outer beauty of posture expression and meaning conveyed by such language. The role played by both facial expression and posture expression in discourse, during a conversation, is to aid, verify, impress or remove. Facial expression and posture expression, which is of aesthetical evaluation should be conformed to discourse and context. The relationship between signifier and the signified of body language is an expressive one. $$$$
 
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Chinese language is body-language -interrupting communication- (4)

By: Ulrich Sollmann
29-06-2012
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication

Chinese language is body-language – interrupting communication- (4)

Volker once told me about this specific difficulty when filming in China. He remembered the time when he did a documentation film on psychotherapy in China. There were many people who sat in the room, his camera “pointed” to a person, standing, who talked about an experience. After some time this person stopped talking, so that Volker after some time tried to focus on another person, who was moving a little or, as it seemed to be, was probably the next to talk about his experience. Doing this  led to the point of missing an important moment. The Chinese who had talked and stopped talking suddenly went on talking, went on talking in a way as if he had not interrupted his presented experience. And it was important what he talked about.

In Germany or probably in other Western countries we get a feeling of ………………..

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Chinese language is body-language –giving birth to words- (3)

By: Ulrich Sollmann
26-06-2012
Body language, nonverbal communication

Chinese language is body-language –giving birth to words-  (3)

While writing this I remember Lola and Volker. Lola is Chinese and Volker is German. Both work as documentary filmmakers, especially in intercultural contexts, just as in China or Germany.

We were talking about the Chinese language, about calligraphy and the way a Chinese will translate a German word or sentence into Chinese.

Volker said a simple sentence of three words. For a European it was very easy to translate this into a foreign language. Lola, after she had heard the sentence looked down on the table, was very concentrated and ………………………..

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