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How to Communicate Familiar Interpersonal Through Paralanguage

How to Communicate Familiar Interpersonal Through Paralanguage
How to Communicate Familiar Interpersonal Through Paralanguage

How to Communicate Familiar Interpersonal Through Paralanguage. Have you ever had good interpersonal communication? Let's say you meet someone you just met, but you can get to know him right away in a few minutes.

It's as if you've known the person long before or on some other occasion, have you ever felt that your conversation was just small talk with a new person when you've been talking to him for more than 15 minutes?

This has happened to me many times and I was thinking, is this happening because I'm running out of things to talk about? Turns out, not really.

A study actually states that only 7% of words are interpreted by the person we are talking to, the remaining 38% is our voice and the remaining 55% is dominated by our body language. Thus, the subject of conversation becomes unimportant if we are close and familiar with the person we are talking to.

How to Communicate Familiar Interpersonal Through Paralanguage In Easy Way

For almost a few weeks now, I've been engrossed in finding out how we can build close and intimate communication relationships with the people we're talking to in no time. And I found a way known as Rapport.

Mirroring and Modeling

Rapport or Closeness can be built through mirroring and modeling techniques. This technique tries to imitate or imitate our interlocutor so that we can enter and be accepted in his world because it creates synchronization.

No need to bother to understand this mirroring and modeling technique. Try it, we always look for similarities the first time we talk to a new interlocutor.

How to Communicate Familiar Interpersonal Through Paralanguage
How to Communicate Familiar Interpersonal Through Paralanguage

We will ask about the area of ​​origin, domicile, place of work, education and so on. New conversations begin to feel familiar if we know that the other person we are talking to actually lives in the same area as where we live.

They come from the same area as us or work in the same area as us. That's when, we started to feel connected and easily started the next conversation. You can then develop mirroring and modeling techniques in a number of ways.

The first way is to pay attention to the body language of the other person, how he sits, how he makes hand movements and how he makes other movements. That's all we observed and did the same on certain occasions.

Duplicates are proven to be effective

You can duplicate the movements of the other person, but do so in a relaxed and efficient manner so that the other person does not feel awkward because you are duplicating every move.

The second way is to pay attention to the use of words, terms, dialects and sentences of the interlocutor. If he uses a lot of technical sentences, then we can imitate him by using technical sentences.

And, if he only uses simple sentences, we adapt him to using simple sentences or if he uses many specific dialects, we also use that dialect, adjusting it so that we feel close to the other person.

The first method is very effective for face-to-face verbal communication because we can observe the movements and body language of the other person directly. And, this second way is very effective for communication both orally face-to-face and in writing.

The next question, what methods can we use for voice communication, for example by telephone or teleconferencing? This is just starting to get interesting because there really is a third way to do it.

This third method can even be used in all forms of communication, be it face-to-face, written or voice. That is, this third method is known as the mirroring and modeling technique for the paralanguage of the interlocutor. What is paralanguage?

Get to know Paralanguage

Paralanguage is a linguistic science that studies sounds or vowels from a nonverbal point of view, namely: volume (loud or soft voice), rate (fast or slow voice), pitch (high or low voice), and tone (loud or low voice). weak voice).

Thus, Paralanguage always gives certain signs when we communicate. We can understand what exactly is the message we want to convey from our interlocutor through paralanguage because the meaning of a word can be different if the paralanguage is different.

An example is this. My friend calls her lover with the word "darling", I certainly understand that my friend calls her lover with love. However, if my friend calls her "DARLING!!", I promptly realize that my friend must be angry with her lover.

The Importance of Paralanguage

Paralanguage believes there is a relationship between word intonation and body physiology as interpersonal communication. For example, a troop leader will speak loudly while leading the ceremony because at that time his physical condition is in a ready position, standing straight with his chest outstretched.


In contrast to elementary students who get bad grades, he will speak hesitantly full of fear when talking to his parents because his attitude at that time must be lethargic, looking down, and expecting mercy.

Departing from this relationship, attention to the paralanguage of the interlocutor becomes very important. We should speak with more empathy and should speak softly and not in a hurry when others speak softly.

How to Communicate Familiar Interpersonal Through Paralanguage
How to Communicate Familiar Interpersonal Through Paralanguage

Then, we started to raise our voice volume when our interlocutor started to raise his voice. Also pay attention to the intonation of the sentence because like the story above, words can have different meanings if the intonation is different.

By paying attention to the paralanguage of the interlocutor, the implied message will be easily captured and the response can be given more precisely without misunderstanding.

That's all my friends, my writing is about How to Communicate Familiar Interpersonal Through Paralanguage, Let's practice!

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