Kinesics and Context: Essays on Body Motion Communication

by Ray L. Birdwhistell

Book Overview

Ray L. Birdwhistell, in this study of human body motion (a study he terms kinesics), advances the theory that human communication needs and uses all the senses, that the information conveyed by human gestures and movements is coded and patterned differently in various cultures, and that these codes can be discovered by skilled scrutiny of particular movements within a social context.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812210123
• ISBN13: 9780812210125
• Release Date: November 1970
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 5.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"