Use Of Paralanguage And Kinesics In Everyday Life

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Term Paper Title	Use Of Paralanguage And Kinesics In Everyday Life
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Use of Paralanguage and Kinesics in Everyday Life

Use of Paralanguage and Kinesics in Everyday Life

     The use of kinesics and paralanguage in everyday life is the most
prominent use of persuasion we use subconsciously.  They are used subconsciously
because you may not know what they mean.  Which can cause cultural tension if
you do something that may seem harmless to you but may be a great insult to
another culture.  Paralanguage has many forms such as whistling which can be
used by many people as a means of entertaining by whistling a song or even in
American culture used to hound women on the streets because they appear to be
attractive.  These two uses of persuasion I will discuss about in my paper.  I
will discuss the history of both and also how they are used today in everyday
life.

     To start of with I will define kinesics.  Kinesics is articulation of
the body, or movement resulting from muscular and skeletal shift.  This includes
all actions, physical or physiological, automatic reflexes, posture, facial
expressions, gestures, and other body movements.  Body language, body idiom,
gesture language, organ language and kinesic acts are just some terms used to
depict kinesics.  In ways that body language works in nonverbal acts, body
language parallels paralanguage.  Kinesic acts may substitute for language,
accompany it, or modify it.  Kinesic acts may be lexical or informative and
directive in nature, or they may be emotive or empathic movements.  Posture is
one of the components of kinesics.  Posture is broken down into three basic
positions: bent knees, lying down, and standing. Artists and mimes have always
been aware of the range of communication possible through body stance.  But
there are some cultural differences in posture positions.  Most people use the
bent knee position to eat, but while the Romans used to eat lying down.  Prince
Peter of Greece and Denmark described the sleeping posture of the Tibetans
before World War II.  He said that the local men slept outside at night huddled
around the fire, hunched over on their knees with their faces resting in their
palms.

     In 1932, William James did a study of expression of bodily posture. He
recognized the relationship of facial expression, gesture, and posture.  He
declared that studying each one independently was justified for the purpose of
analysis, but they should be recognized as a whole unit that function as an
expression.  He devised four basic kinds from 347 different postures in hi...

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