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own observations. I chose to write about a courtroom setting, because the setting is structured, but there are often a variety of different types of communication, both obvious and inadvertent,
that occur during court proceedings. The variety of different roles and the specific nature of the physical structure of the room are all important elements in this environment.
I entered the courtroom with a group of 20 other people, all of whom sat in benches at the back of the room. The room was divided into
four basic sections with an aisle running down the middle of the room. In the back of the room where groupings of benches where individuals sat to view the
court proceedings. There was a center divide that separated these benches from the tables where lawyers presented their cases, and these were immediately followed by the jury box to the
right, the judges table in the immediate center and the witness seat to the right of the judge. To the left of the judge, a court clerk sat recording
the proceedings. When the 20 people in the audience entered the courtroom, we were ushered in by a court officer, who asked us to sit and told us that
we were required the maintain silence in the audience during the proceedings. Individuals in the group of 20 sat on either side of the aisle, approximately 15 of the
20 sat to the left of the aisle, while the other 5, including myself, sat to the right. There was only one other person in the courtroom other than
the court clerk and the bailiff, a lawyer, who I believed to be the district attorney. After we were seated, the other attorney, the defense attorney arrived. The two
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