Restaurant Culture in the Context of Nonverbal Folklore and its Functions / Sözsüz Folklor* ve İşlevleri Bağlamında Restoran Kültürü

Abstract

There are so many cultural elements that societies produced as their needs in historical process. These elements implements and transfers as nonverbal, verbal or written. Nonverbal culture elements creates a culture environment and also uses frequently in today’s modern societies at various functions and areas. These elements that as a basis as used in communication function while transferred for generations with a transfer indigenious culture which they belong, they also incorparates universal qualification. So nonverbal communication both original qualification like verbal culture environment and it has a language qualify as a differenciate from this culture environment. Nonverbal culture elements are used in society such restaurant, cafes, tea or coffee houses like drinking or eating places as that very different areas. It provides create nonverbal communication who people or customers and personnel that stand in the same place wiyhout word or writting. In this study is aimed to explain that what is nonverbal culture and which nonverbal culture elements are used in restaurant and what those at means. Datas which mentioned in this study acquired through observation. In the meantime not a single region or restaurant directly, but observed in various regions in Turkey and due to profoundty of this subject utilized nonverbal culture elements that using commonly.

Keywords

• nonverbal
• nonverbal culture
• nonverbal communication
• culture environment
• restaurant culture