PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Hlavnova, Anna AU - Hlavna, Vladimir TI - Communication in Emergency Situations DP - 2002 Dec 31 TA - Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina PG - 40--47 VI - 4 IP - 4 AID - 10.26552/com.C.2002.4.40-47 IS - 13354205 AB - Communication in emergency situations requires not only specific verbal but also non-verbal competencies of persons involved. Verbal communication comprises, apart from speech culture and the way language is used, also language competence which is to be properly applied in discourse. If language competence fails, non-verbal communication (body language) takes place.