body language
Noun
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Noun
body language (uncountable)
- Nonverbal communication by means of facial expressions, eye behavior, gestures, posture, and the like; often thought to be involuntary.
- Deliberate, usually culturally influenced, nonverbal communication using the body through facial expressions, gestures, dance, mime, etc.
- 2000, Julius Fast, Body Language ↗,
- There are, however, body languages that can transcend cultural lines.
- 2004, Drid Williams, Body Language(s) in Anthropology and the Dance: Ten Lectures, page 163 ↗,
- As with spoken languages, body languages are used by everyone to live out their lives, to communicate, and to accomplish things in the world — all of which can be done with more or less success with no awareness of the rule-structures that govern the use of body language or its connection with the culture, far less the metaphysics of self that is involved.
- 2008, P. Brunelli - Uptodate Fashion Academy, 2.03: Body language & imagination ↗, in Emotional Trend: Psyche > Creativity > Beauty to Fashion,
- In artistic terms, the synthesis between body languages and dressing languages is expressed in dances, since the rhythmic and creative movement of the body reveals emotions and culture.
- 2000, Julius Fast, Body Language ↗,
- French: langage du corps
- German: Körpersprache
- Italian: linguaggio del corpo
- Portuguese: linguagem corporal
- Russian: язы́к те́ла
- Spanish: movimientos, expresiones físicas, kinésica, quinésica
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