Metacommunicative competence

Metacommunicative competence refers to competence in metacommunication such as to give the ability to intervene (in a guiding or constructively controlling way) within difficult conversations and to correct communication problems by utilizing the different ways of practical communication:

• verbal communication: by words either orally or in text.
• paraverbal communication: e.g. loudness of speaking, prosody, intonation, silences, interruption or interfering the conversation. (main articles: Meta-communication, Paralanguage)
• nonverbal communication: kinesics (facial expression, eye contact, gestures); proxemics
• extraverbal communication: meaning conveyed through the communication's context, including: time, place, orientation towards target groups, tactile (feeling by touching) and olfactory (smelling) aspects

See also

• Meta-communication
• Communication, communication theory
• Interpersonal communication, interaction
• Intercultural competence, intercultural relations, cross-cultural communication
• Kinesics, proxemics
• Perception, sense
• Sign language