Nonverbal Communication

Welcome to the Nonverbal Communication Division (NVC) of the National Communication Association. The NVC Division was approved by the NCA Legislative Council on Wednesday, November 10, 2004, and we have since held meetings in Boston, San Antonio, Chicago, and San Diego.

Now we are looking forward to Chicago, 2009!

The business meeting is scheduled for Saturday, Nov 14 - 8:00am - 9:15am,
Palmer House Hilton / Logan Room

Please mark this date on your calendar and plan to attend our panels if you can. Here are our panels for 2009:

The Nonverbal Communication Division has a policy of sponsoring and co-sponsoring panels that include nonverbal communication research.

We were happy to continue this work in Chicago last year, where we scheduled two successful panels with
Guest Psychologists from
Chicago Area Schools

We also scheduled two panels co-sponsored by the
Interpersonal Communication Division
and the NVC Division:
Nonverbal Communication in
Interpersonal Relationships &
Deception in Interpersonal Communication

The NVC division officers encourage you to propose entire panels for the upcoming conference in San Diego. One of our interests is to engage local scholars. For example, two year ago at San Antonio, we sponsored two panels with guest psychologists from Texas schools.

If you know of nonverbal scholars from allied disciplines whose work would be of interest to our membership in the future, please forward their names to Judee Burgoon (jburgoon@cmi.arizona.edu).

The division does not sponsor competitive paper panels. However, it does offer awards for best nonverbal papers. If you are submitting a paper that has some relevance to nonverbal communication, be sure to notify the program planner from that division to forward the paper to our division (again to Judee Burgoon) for consideration.

We also will sponsor programs from other divisions that include papers related to nonverbal communication. Please notify us if you have nonverbal papers that are paneled by other divisions.

As we proceed, we are particularly interested in sponsoring invited panels addressing issues central to current NVC studies in a variety of contexts. Additionally, we shall be sponsoring and presenting featured speakers showcasing their work to a larger NCA audience.

In the future we hope to lighten the load of other division planners by asking the planners to encourage their members to participate with us by sharing those paper proposals that have been accepted by the individual divisions and that possess a nonverbal theme.

We greatly appreciate the support from NCA's Legislative Council and look forward with enthusiasm to more exciting challenges ahead in the promotion and dissemination of the best of research in nonverbal communication. We are open to all approaches and are eager to receive comments and suggestions for consideration. If you are interested in joining us and have not yet done so, please email us!