Nonverbal Communication

Lecture Two: Gestures and Movement

Axioms of Gestures and Movement

•True feelings•Context determines interpretation•Body language•KINESICS

Two approaches to Kinesics

• Structural (Birdwhistell, 1952)• Definition• Rule system• ALLOKINES• KINES• KINEMES

• External Variable Approach (Ekman & Friesen, 1976)

FIVE types of gestures and movement

•Emblems• Illustrators•Regulators• Yielding, maintaining, requesting, denying

•Affect displays•Adaptors• Self, alter-directed, and object focused

Neuroscience Gesture Theory

• Wachsmuth (2006)

• Gestures follow neuro pathways with verbal communication:• Deitic• Iconic• Metaphorical• Beats