Nonverbal communication in Sports

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NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

CS202B

Research Topic Essay

Nonverbal communication in Sports

Due Date: March 25, 2004

Project description:

My research will be focusing on the use and importance of nonverbal communication in sports. From all the major sports, I will concentrate on baseball, basketball and football. In each of these three sports, nonverbal behaviour is an important factor for success and victory. Nonverbal signals are used in order to relay messages from coaches to players and vice versa. These messages are the tactical methods used by coaches that are apparent for victory. With the use of these signals, the opposing team will have great difficulty to decode them, which will deny them the ability to conjecture what game plan is being utilized. Without the use of nonverbal communication, teams would have difficulty maintaining their plan of action in different situations. These issues are extremely important to the game's understanding and are the reasons for my research.

As one will see from my research, in football and basketball, some freedom is given to the players due to the fast paced nature of the games. However in baseball, my research will attempt to discover