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Body Language Eloquence as a Means of Linguistic Personality Formation
Author(s) -
Ol'ga I. Marchenko
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
european journal of contemporary education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.517
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2305-6746
pISSN - 2304-9650
DOI - 10.13187/ejced.2013.3.39
Subject(s) - psychology , linguistics , personality , body language , language acquisition , communication , social psychology , mathematics education , philosophy
Word, sound, movement – we interact via these channels of communication. Rhetoric act cannot be considered separately from the body “language”. Human gesture doesn’t’ refer to the motion display, but to the language. You might say, it expands the idea via movement to someone else (partner, listener, audience). The same statement, accompanied with different gestures, can have opposite meaning. The special knowledge of body movements combination is called kinesics, its acquisition and application is the important means of linguistic personality formation.

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