THE DEPICTION OF NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS IN RAYMOND’S RUN SHORT STORY
Politeknik Negeri Malang
The data of this research was taken from Raymond’s Run by T. C. Bambara. This short story is
interesting because it contains several non-verbal communications. This research aims to identify
non-verbal communication di Raymond’s Run Short Story. This is library research. The result of this
study is there are seven types of nonverbal communication are found in the short story, which include
kinesics (body movement and facial expression), physical characteristics, proxemics (space),
chronemics (time), paralanguage, artifacts, and environment. It is found that kinesics (body
movements and facial expressions) is the most dominant type of nonverbal communication in that
short story.
Keywords: non-verbal communication Raymond’s Run short story