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  2. Body language - Wikipedia

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    Body language is a type of nonverbal communication in which physical behaviors, as opposed to words, are used to express or convey information. Such behavior includes facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space. Although body language is an important part of communication, most of it happens without ...

  3. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    The "fig sign" is an ancient gesture with many uses. The ILY sign, "I Love You" Pollice Verso by Jean-Léon Gérôme. A man pointing at a photo. Fig sign is a gesture made with the hand and fingers curled and the thumb thrust between the middle and index fingers, or, rarely, the middle and ring fingers, forming the fist so that the thumb partly ...

  4. Articulatory gestures - Wikipedia

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    Articulatory gestures are the actions necessary to enunciate language. Examples of articulatory gestures are the hand movements necessary to enunciate sign language and the mouth movements of speech. In semiotic terms, these are the physical embodiment (signifiers) of speech signs, which are gestural by nature (see below).

  5. Nonverbal communication - Wikipedia

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    Popular books included Body Language (Fast, 1970), which focused on how to use nonverbal communication to attract other people, and How to Read a Person Like a Book (Nierenberg & Calero, 1971) which examined nonverbal behavior in negotiation situations. [17] The journal Environmental Psychology and Nonverbal Behavior was founded in 1976. [25]

  6. Gesture - Wikipedia

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    Gestures, commonly referred to as "body language", play an important role in industry. Proper body language etiquette in business dealings can be crucial for success. However, gestures can have different meanings according to the country in which they are expressed. In an age of global business, diplomatic cultural sensitivity has become a ...

  7. Kinesics - Wikipedia

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    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).

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  9. Non-verbal leakage - Wikipedia

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    Some studies have found that females tend to be more responsive to non-verbal cues in comparison to verbal cues. [5] Knowing a person's sex can also give insight into a person's non-verbal leakage, as males and females tend to display particular non-verbal leakage when telling the truth, which can also help to indicate when someone is telling a lie, as such behaviors would be suppressed. [6]