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Kinesics

Not to be confused with Kinetics.

Kinesics is the interpretation of body communication such as facial expressions and gestures, nonverbal behavior related to movement of any part of the body or the body as a whole. The equivalent popular culture term is body language, a term Ray Birdwhistell, considered the founder of this area of study,[1] neither used nor liked (on the grounds that what can be conveyed with the body does not meet the linguist's definition of language).

  1. ^ Danesi, M (2006). "Kinesics". Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics: 207–213. doi:10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/01421-8. ISBN 9780080448541.

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