Many other symbols can carry non-verbal meanings – clothing, colours, age, and height to name a few.

In Canada, certain styles and colours of clothing are considered more “professional” and more “credible.” Certain cloths and fabrics – silk and linen for example, carry non-verbal messages of success, prestige, and competence.  In Japan, clothing denotes not only status but also occupational group.  Private school students wear uniforms.  Company badges indicate rank within the organisation.  Workers were different clothes when they are on strike than when they are working.

Colours can also carry cultural meanings in a culture.  In Canada, mourners wear black for funerals, while brides wear white at their wedding.  In pre-Communist China and in some South American tribes, white is the colour of mourning.  Purple flowers are given to dead people in Mexico.  In Korea, red ink is used to record deaths but never to write about living people.