El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la relevancia que asumen la comunicación verbal, paraverbal y no verbal para un grupo de estudiantes al observar y evaluar el discurso de un orador. El corpus analizado está compuesto por las anotaciones efectuadas por 30 alumnos sobre los déficits comunicativos que detectan en el discurso de un orador. Los resultados obtenidos indican que el 11.27% de tales críticas iban dirigidas a la comunicación verbal, el 30.82% a la comunicación paraverbal y el 57.89% a la comunicación no verbal. Por tanto, estas conclusiones resultan afines con las alcanzadas por Mehrabian (1972), si bien difieren parcialmente de las presentadas en van-der Hofstadt (2005) u Orzáiz (2009). Se discuten las implicancias de estos resultados.

This paper aims to analyze the relevance of verbal, paraverbal and nonverbal communication for a group of students by observing and evaluating a speaker’s speech. The corpus analyzed is composed of the notes made by 30 students about the communicative flaws detected in a speaker’s speech. The results obtained indicate that 11.27% of such criticisms were aimed at verbal communication, 30.82% at paraverbal communication and 57.89% at nonverbal communication. Therefore, these conclusions are similar to those reached by Mehrabian (1972), although they differ in part from the ones presented in van der Hofstadt (2005) or Orzáiz (2009). The implications of these results are discussed.

This paper aims to analyze the relevance of verbal, paraverbal and nonverbal communication for a group of students by observing and evaluating a speaker’s speech. The corpus analyzed is composed of the notes made by 30 students about the communicative flaws detected in a speaker’s speech. The results obtained indicate that 11.27% of such criticisms were aimed at verbal communication, 30.82% at paraverbal communication and 57.89% at nonverbal communication. Therefore, these conclusions are similar to those reached by Mehrabian (1972), although they differ in part from the ones presented in van der Hofstadt (2005) or Orzáiz (2009). The implications of these results are discussed.