Body-to-body communication receiving the communication. Because this way of communicating is so varied and has so many ways of being expressed, some meanings can become lost or misunderstood. It can become difficult to focus on the message being conveyed if more than one gesture is being expressed at the same time and some signals can be missed if one is focusing on another at the same time, causing confusion in the message. This type of communication also makes it difficult to change subjects or to go into detail about a subject without the use of verbal indication. Body-to-body communication is only helpful
Body language maintain a certain amount of physical space between the other person. Tone of voice is a combination of spoken language and body language. The manner in which something is said can affect how it should be interpreted. Shouting, smiling, irony and so on may add a layer of meaning which is neither pure body language nor speech. Human communication is extremely complex and one must look at the whole in order to make any determination as to the attitudes being expressed. Body language is a major contributor to the attitude a person conveys to others. Albert Mehrabian maintains that during