In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

Black sign language speakers are also more likely to sign higher on the body.

Acting also often demands an ability to employ dialects, accents and body language, improvisation, observation and emulation, mime, and stage combat.

And in our own language ,— for he was familiar with English poetry ,— speaking of the soul ’ s dread departure from the body:

Other periodicals appeared and began to give Breton a fairly large body of literature for a minority language.

A variety of verbal and non-verbal means of communicating exists such as body language, eye contact, sign language, haptic communication, chronemics, and media such as pictures, graphics, sound, and writing.

Research shows that the majority of our communication is non verbal, also known as body language.

Some of non verbal communication includes chronemics, haptics, gesture, body language or posture ; facial expression and eye contact, object communication such as clothing, hairstyles, architecture, symbols infographics, and tone of voice as well as through an aggregate of the above.

As a type of face-to-face communication, body language and choice tonality play a significant role, and may have a greater impact upon the listener than informational content.

One of the problems facing these full-time teachers is the absence of international governing body for the certification or licenture of English language teachers.

Impairments caused by local brain tissue damage on the bleed site are also possible, including seizure, one-sided weakness ( hemiparesis ), a loss of touch sensation on one side of the body and deficits in language processing ( aphasia ).

Morris oversaw the creation of the gestural and body language for the Paleolithic human characters in the 1981 film Quest for Fire.

His book, Beyond Nineteen Eighty-Four, consists of 220 pages and eighteen articles contributed by long-time Committee members and others whose body of work has made important contributions to understandings about language, as well as a bibliography of 103 sources on doublespeak.

" Their temperament and body language give the impression that they do not know or care about their relatively small size.

However, that would convey the idea of the physical body of people, whereas using the name of the language as the basis of the word gives it the more abstract connotation of a cultural sphere.

" Videotapes of the incident are inconclusive as to whether Mason's upswept hand was intended to be an indecent gesture ( as Mason's fingers are just barely off-camera ), but Sullivan's body language immediately afterward made it clear that he was convinced of it, despite Mason's panic-stricken denials later, claiming that he did not know what the " middle finger " meant, and that he did not make the gesture anyways.

The language Esperanto is often used to access an international culture, including a large body of original as well as translated literature.

Rorty in particular elaborates further on this, claiming that the individual, the community, the human body as a whole have a ' means by which they know the world ' ( this entails language, culture, semiotic systems, mathematics, science etc .).

Flirting or coquetry is a sexual activity involving verbal or written communication as well as body language by one person to another, suggesting an interest in a deeper relationship with the other person.

A study of body language: a man flirting

A study in body language: Haynes King's Jealousy and Flirtation

Flirting may consist of stylized gestures, language, body language, postures, and physiologic signs which act as cues to another person.

Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

it is Astarte, Ishtar, Venus, Yahwe, Dionysus, Christ, the mysterious and divine orgone energy flowing through the body of the universe.

The guns are fired, the hymns are sung, and the body of Charles is carried down to the vault and laid beside the tombs of his ancestors.

The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

This is the principal point made in this final section of Englishman No. 57, and it caps Steele's efforts in his other writing of these months to counteract the notion of the Tories as a `` Church Party '' supported by the body of the clergy.

Undoubtedly one merit of the vast panorama of Gentile conceptions of the Jew unfolded in the present anthology is that it provides a formidable body of material that invites critical examination in terms of reality.

If Jews are identified as a religious body in a controversy that comes before a national or international tribunal, it is obviously compatible with the goal of human dignity to protect freedom of worship.

So far as the existing body of formal principle and procedure is concerned, categorical novelties are not to be anticipated in Jewish-Gentile relationships ; ;

Perhaps tracing some of these more important symbols through the body of his work will show that Patchen's new poetry is well thought out, and remains within the mainstream of his work, while being suited to a new form.

When I hold my son he stiffens his whole body in my arms until he is as straight and stiff as a board.

The cholesterol level in the blood is influenced by the glands of the body.

The removal of Stalin's body from the mausoleum he shared with Lenin to less distinguished quarters in the Kremlin wall is not unprecedented in history.

Daughter of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few really beautiful girls in the New York Casbah, with dark eyes and dark, waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, glimmering body.

that is how the Jews prepare a body for burial.

Sheer plumpness, he knew, is not a vital part of the body and has no procreative functions.

The purpose of the Club is to promote better athletic teams at Carleton and to increase interest in them among the student body.

This is done by encouraging the entire male student body to participate in either the intercollegiate or intramural sports program and by sponsoring the Carleton cheerleaders.

The exercise I shall discuss in this -- the first of a new series of articles on muscle definition-specialization of a particular body part -- is the One Leg Lunge.

Laguerre Hanover is outstanding in type and conformation -- good body, plenty of heart girth, stands straight on his legs on excellent feet -- and has the smoothest gait.

He is a fine-looking colt with a good body, good set of legs and nice way of going.