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    Non Verbal Symbols

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    Nonverbal symbols use pictures, signs, gestures, and patterns to represent things without words. Symbols can be concrete, directly representing something, or abstract, where the connection is less clear. Symbols have been used throughout history and remain important for communication. They help with directions, rules, expressions, and accessibility. Symbols can be simple like gestures or complex like sign languages. Words are also symbols that represent ideas rather than being the ideas themselves. Meaning depends on experience, so the same symbol may mean different things to different people. Complex symbols include tactile symbols for blind people using materials and braille using raised dot patterns to represent letters.

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    Non Verbal Symbols

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    Nonverbal symbols use pictures, signs, gestures, and patterns to represent things without words. Symbols can be concrete, directly representing something, or abstract, where the connection is less clear. Symbols have been used throughout history and remain important for communication. They help with directions, rules, expressions, and accessibility. Symbols can be simple like gestures or complex like sign languages. Words are also symbols that represent ideas rather than being the ideas themselves. Meaning depends on experience, so the same symbol may mean different things to different people. Complex symbols include tactile symbols for blind people using materials and braille using raised dot patterns to represent letters.

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    Nonverbal symbols use pictures, signs, gestures, and patterns to represent things without words. Symbols can be concrete, directly representing something, or abstract, where the connection is less clear. Symbols have been used throughout history and remain important for communication. They help with directions, rules, expressions, and accessibility. Symbols can be simple like gestures or complex like sign languages. Words are also symbols that represent ideas rather than being the ideas themselves. Meaning depends on experience, so the same symbol may mean different things to different people. Complex symbols include tactile symbols for blind people using materials and braille using raised dot patterns to represent letters.

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    Non Verbal Symbols

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    Nonverbal symbols use pictures, signs, gestures, and patterns to represent things without words. Symbols can be concrete, directly representing something, or abstract, where the connection is less clear. Symbols have been used throughout history and remain important for communication. They help with directions, rules, expressions, and accessibility. Symbols can be simple like gestures or complex like sign languages. Words are also symbols that represent ideas rather than being the ideas themselves. Meaning depends on experience, so the same symbol may mean different things to different people. Complex symbols include tactile symbols for blind people using materials and braille using raised dot patterns to represent letters.

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    The key takeaways are that symbols have been used for communication since primitive times and include pictures, signs, colors, shapes, gestures and more. Symbols can be concrete, closely representing what they mean, or abstract, with less close resemblance.

    Concrete symbols closely resemble what they represent, like a bathroom sign. Abstract symbols do not closely resemble what they represent and their meaning depends more on individual interpretation, like a symbol representing being cold.

    Words can be considered complex symbols because their meanings depend more on a person's inner thoughts than the words themselves. The same object can have different meanings to different people based on their experiences.

    Non verbal symbols

    Nonverbal symbol,(such as pictures,signs,gestures,and systematic patters,and words),both


    receptive and expression communications,are meant to represent an event,person,place,or thing
    without utilizing verbal communications.Symbols can be either concrete or abstract means of
    communication.

    Why are Nonverbal Symbols


    Symbols have been used all the way back to primtive times,and are still a popular media form of
    nonverbal communication in todays civilization.We use different types of symbols through
    pictures,signs,colors,shapes,hand gestures,and so on to communicate.Its important to examine
    the nonverbal symbols inorder to understand what they mean,what they look like,and how they
    sound.We use symbols on our daily commutes with signs point us to Take a U Turn or Go
    Left.When a traffic light turns green,we know it is our turn to go.We use symbols in math,such
    as +means to add,and = means equal to.Going into public venues,we are likely to see
    symbols tells us which is the womens restroom nad which is the mans restroom.We are told
    where people are not allowed to smoke,and where those with a handicap are able to park.We
    even express ourselves through symbols.Simple nonverbal symbols could be the hitchhikers
    thumbs or moving our thumb and index finger into a circle,for an O.K sign.Hearing and
    visually impaired individuals rely on symbols and signs inorder to communicate.Symbols or signs
    can be comples as well,such as American and British sign language,which are nonverbal signs
    meant to translate to a verbal translation.Symbols and signs are an essential part in
    communication.

    Types of nonverbal symbols


    Concrete Symbols
    Nonverbal symbols can be concrete communication
    -When a symbol is concrete,it means that the symbol is similar enough that a person would have
    no trouble knowing what the symbol means
    Example:
    If a sign like this was on a door,such as in store or restaurant most people would assume that is
    was a unisex bathroom

    Abstract symbols
    Nonverbal symbols can also be abstract
    -When a symbol is abstract,it means the resembles of a symbols to the event,person,place or
    thing is not closely represented.
    Example

    This symbol shows that person was cold but he could have been breathing,talking or maybe even
    singing.There is no right answer for this,but it shows how when we are confronted with abstract
    symbols,it depeds on what individual sees.Experiences,ideas,beliefs,and so on can also play a
    part influencing in what we see if no other information is given.

    Words are also complex symbols


    Words as Complex and Abstract symbols
    Symbols are not just pictures and hand gestures.Words,such as the ones youre reading now are
    also considered nonverbal symbols.Words are meant to stand for or represent something,but
    are not meant to be the thing they are representing.Words do not make up the meanings,but a
    persons inner thoughts do.For example,my four-year-old niece has a little car for her to ride
    outside in.When shes drawing her pictures of her favorite car,she labels it a train,when in fact it
    is a car.Because of her recent interest in trains,everything that has four wheels,is a train.This
    shows that it is possible for people to look at the same object,but give it different meanings
    based on their personal experiences.In essence,words can symbolize whatever we want.It only
    comes apparent to have similar meaning for words when communicating.

    More Complex symbols


    Another type of complex symbols are Tactile symbols which are used by people who are totally
    blind or have visual limitations that do not allow them to see words or pictures clearly enough to
    understand their meanings.In order to communicate,individuals have to use certain materials
    and in certain positions to show what they are trying to say.

    Another form of nonverbal symbols that is considered complex,is a logical system of dots that
    represent words known as braille.

    To represent alphabet,dots are used in a systematic pattern a person will touch or trace with
    their fingers to form the letter

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