Body language
Here are entered works on non-linguistic communication in interpersonal relations, conveying emotions, attitudes, social status, etc., by such means as eye contact, facial expression, use of personal space, gestures, or posture. General works on the relationship of the human body to language, including semantics, vocabulary, and other linguistic features are entered under Human body and language.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Body language -- Computer simulation
- Body language -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Facial expression
- Gesture
- Kinesics
- Nonverbal communication (Psychology)
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Introduction to Kinesics (An Annotation System for Analysis of Body Motion and Gesture) (Washington: Dept. of State, Foreign Service Institute, 1952), by Ray L. Birdwhistell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)
- Gesture and Power: Religion, Nationalism, and Everyday Performance in Congo (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), by Yolanda Covington-Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine: ou, Analyse Électro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions (2 volumes in French; Paris: Ve Jules Renouard, 1862), by G.-B. Duchenne, contrib. by Charles Darwin
- Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine: ou, Analyse Électro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions (second edition; 2 volumes in French; Paris: J. B. Balliere et fils, 1876), by G.-B. Duchenne
- Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine: ou, Analyse Électro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions (2 volumes in French; Paris: Ve Jules Renouard, 1862), by G.-B. Duchenne, contrib. by Charles Darwin
- Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine: ou, Analyse Électro-Physiologique de L'Expression des Passions (second edition; 2 volumes in French; Paris: J. B. Balliere et fils, 1876), by G.-B. Duchenne
- The Smile: If You Can Do Nothing Else, You Can Smile (Boston: School of Expression, c1915), by S. S. Curry (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Integrating Gestures: The Interdisciplinary Nature of Gesture (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), ed. by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- Die Gebärden der Griechen und Römer (in German; Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1890), by Karl Sittl
- Introduction to Kinesics (An Annotation System for Analysis of Body Motion and Gesture) (Washington: Dept. of State, Foreign Service Institute, 1952), by Ray L. Birdwhistell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chirologia: or, The Naturall Language of the Hand Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures Thereofl Whereunto Is Added Chironomia, or, the Art of Manuall Rhetoricke, Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, Digested by Art In the Hand, as the Chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, By Historicall Manifesto's Exemplified Out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life and Civill Conversation; With Types, or Chyrograms, a Long-wish'd for Illustration of This Argument (London: Printed by T. Harper, 1644), by J. B.
- Gesture and Rank in Roman Art; The Use of Gestures to Denote Status in Roman Sculpture and Coinage (New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1963), by Richard Brilliant (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Self-disclosure- Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Deborah H. Holdstein and David Bleich (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- L'Art et l'Hypnose: Interprétation Plastique d'Oeuvres Littéraires et Musicales (second edition, in French; Geneva: Édition Atar; Paris: F. Alcan, n.d.), by Emile Magnin, contrib. by Théodore Flournoy, illust. by Frederic Boissonas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Chirologia: or, The Naturall Language of the Hand Composed of the Speaking Motions, and Discoursing Gestures Thereofl Whereunto Is Added Chironomia, or, the Art of Manuall Rhetoricke, Consisting of the Naturall Expressions, Digested by Art In the Hand, as the Chiefest Instrument of Eloquence, By Historicall Manifesto's Exemplified Out of the Authentique Registers of Common Life and Civill Conversation; With Types, or Chyrograms, a Long-wish'd for Illustration of This Argument (London: Printed by T. Harper, 1644), by J. B.
- Reflections Upon Laughter, and Remarks Upon the Fable of the Bees (Glasgow: Printed by R. Urie for D. Baxter, 1971), by Francis Hutcheson
- Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Helmuth Plessner, trans. by James Spencer Churchill and Marjorie Grene (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Laughing: A Psychology of Humor (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Norman N. Holland (page images at Florida)
- Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Helmuth Plessner, trans. by James Spencer Churchill and Marjorie Grene (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter (1971), by James R. Kincaid (HTML at Victorian Web)
- Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell (Gutenberg text)