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THE ART OF BODY LANGUAGE IN COMMUNICTAION
Mambetova Kamola
2
nd
year bachelor KSU named after Berdakh
Teaching foreign languages: English Philology.
Raximov Sherzod Iskandarovich
Teacher.
Badirova Dilfuza Asamatdinovna
Supervisor.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13836813
Abstract. Body language is a crucial aspect of human communication that often transcends
verbal interactions. This article explores how nonverbal communication is instinctively instilled
in humans from the first steps of their lives and they proceed developing them for various reasons
deliberately in social interactions to show emotional states, which can’t be accomplished through
words at all.
Keywords: nonverbal communication, the lexis “communication”, the quest about the
universal nature of div language or not.
ИСКУССТВО ЯЗЫКА ТЕЛ В ОБЩЕНИИ
Аннотация. Язык тела является важнейшим аспектом человеческого общения,
который часто выходит за рамки вербального взаимодействия. В этой статье
рассматривается, как невербальное общение инстинктивно прививается людям с первых
шагов их жизни, и они продолжают развивать его по разным причинам намеренно в
социальных взаимодействиях, чтобы показать эмоциональные состояния, которые вообще
невозможно передать словами.
Ключевые слова: невербальное общение, лексика «общение», поиск универсальной
природы языка тела или нет.
Nonverbal communication means this is a process of sending and receiving messages
without using words, either spoken or written. The term “nonverbal communication” was
introduced in 1956 by Jurgen Ruesch and Weldon Kees in the book “Nonverbal communication:
Notes on the Visual Perception of Human Relations”. Body language, which is the most basic
element of nonverbal communication, is a form of communication with gestures, mimics and div
movements.
Communication is also a term that has various definitions reflecting different perspectives.
“Communication is a transactional process in which individuals create, share and regulate
meaning” as defined in Family Communication.[1]
Just what div movements communicate? In general, while words transmit facts and
information, most div language convey feelings, emotions, and attitude. In addition,
communication through div language is instant, for example, when you meet strangers, you start
forming an opinion about the person within seconds, largely because of nonverbal
communication.[3]
What is nonverbal communication?
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Before early humans developed spoken language, they were still able to communicate with
one-another. They may not have had words, but they had something just as expressive as facial
expressions and div movements that allowed them to “speak” with those around them.
Even after developing language, human beings continued to use movements to express
themselves. Experts, who study these movements refer to them as nonverbal communication. Most
non-scholars simply call them div language. Humans use div language from the earliest
moments of life. Long before they can speak, babies communicate with their parents by their
movements and expressions. Body language involves just about every div part, literally from
heads to toes. It includes head movements, facial expressions, hand gestures, postures, torso shifts,
and positioning of legs and feet. Eye contact, tone of voice, and even the amount of space between
people in a conversation are also considered parts of nonverbal communication. Whether standing
or sitting, as long as some part of your div is in motion, you are communicating through div
language. [3]
In 1872, Charles Darwin, the renowned naturalist who proposed the theory of evolution,
published “The Expressions in Man and Animals”. Darwin discussed the similarities in facial
expressions among humans, apes, and monkeys, all of which according to his theory, evolved from
a common ancestor. For many years, this early study in nonverbal communication remained one
of the few scholarly books on the subject. Only in the mid-twentieth century did scholars truly
begin taking div language seriously as a subject of study. Nonverbal communication has since
been analyzed by experts in many fields, including zoologists, psychologists, and anthropologists.
Among the most important pioneers in the study of div language was anthropologist Ray L.
Birdwhistell.
By analyzing films of his research subjects, he studied div movements and their
meanings, in a field called “kinesics”. Also instrumental in the study of nonverbal communication
were Paul Ekman and W. V. Friesen. They developed the Facial Action Coding System called
FACS. FACS is a system of analyzing and interpreting even the smallest facial movement. Today
it is used by psychiatrists to diagnose patients who have trouble communicating and by law
enforcement officers to bet a read on suspects. It is also studied by filmmakers of animated movies
who want to make their characters’ expressions look as real as possible. Another important person
in the field of nonverbal communication is Albert Mehrabian, who was a professor of psychology
at the University of California-Los Angelas and is now retired. His research found that only 7
percent of a message communicated by one person to another comes from the words spoken .He
claimed that the tone of voice accounted for 38 percent, while other elements of div language
made up a whopping 55 precent. Other experts have questioned these exact percentages. But all
agree that div language plays a substantial role in any conversation.[3]
Body language from various aspects
Philosophers and scientists have connected human physical behavior with meaning, mood,
and personality for thousands of years, but only in living memory has the study of div language
become a sophisticated and detailed as it is today. The Ancient Greeks, notably Hippocrates and
Aristotle, considered the aspects of div language probably through their interest in human
personality and behavior, and The Romans, notably Cicero, related gestures to feelings and
communications. Francis Bacon (1605) explored gestures as reflections extension of spoken
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communications. John Bulwer (1644) considered hand gestures, and Gilbert Austin’s Chironomia
(1806) looked at using gestures to improve speech-making. [2]
Universal or NOT?
Body language includes “gestures” that are almost universal. A thing like shaking the head
left to right to signify “no” has meaning in large portions of the world. Desmond Morris in “The
Naked Ape” postulated it was the most universal gesture because it was derived from a baby
turning his head away from the nipple. He also asserted that a nod for “yes” was a motto for more
milk.
These symbols are not universal though. The dividing line appears to happen somewhere
around the former Ottoman Empire, Arabs and Greeks use a quick rise of the head, almost as if
throwing the head back, to indicate “no”. In the Middle East, it is often accompanied by a “tisk”
sound made by drawing the tongue down from the roof of the mouth. Arabs and Greeks also
typically use a sudden lowering of the head with a tilt to affirm something. That is easily
recognized by the Western world, though it is not a common signal. The nodding and shaking we
use appears to be easy enough for Middle Eastern people to understand as well. As you move to
the Indian subcontinent, movement of the head to message becomes much more subtle and
mysterious to non-natives.[3]
Communication in div languages
The term “communication” has been derived from the Latin “communis” that means
“common”. Thus “to communicate” means “to make common”, “to share” and includes verbal,
nonverbal and electronic means of human interaction. Every communication involves one sender,
a message and a recipient, through verbal or nonverbal means, including speech, or oral
communication; writing and graphical representations, signs and signals and specially the
behaviors.
This may sound simple, but communication is actually a very complex subject, and more
simply, communication is said to be the creation and the exchange of meaning. There are four
types communications in which the they are intrapersonal communication, interpersonal
communication, group communication and mass communication. Information can be shared
several different ways with one another. For example, using verbal communication when sharing
a presentation with a group; you might use written communication when applying for a job or
sending an email to a lecturer. So, there are verbal, nonverbal, visual and written skills in
communication. Communication is carried out in two ways: verbal and nonverbal. The means of
expressions of nonverbal communication are the head, face, various parts of the div or div itself
as a whole. [4]
In conclusion, through recognizing the role of div language in social life, not only can we
enrich the quality of our discourse with a substantial help of emotional states, which in linguistic
studies are termed as “exclamations”, but also we get to deepen our grasp of daily movements.
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