In 1969, Ekman and Friesen delineated communicative nonverbal behavior
as those actions that are evidently and knowingly planned by the sender to
send out a stipulated message to the receiver. Their delineation does not
take up the sharing aspect even though it takes up the aspect of purpose.
They elucidate that there is no compulsion that communicative actions
should have a common decoded definition; there could be communicative
actions without information where the sender planned to send out a message
but no one recognizes him. (Function and Impact of Nonverbal Communication
in a Computer Mediated Communication Context: An Investigation of Defining
Non-verbal behavior associated with movement, which might be of any
portion of the body, or the complete body is known as Kinesics. (Kinesics:
http://stephan.dahl.at/nonverbal/kinesics.html) Kinesics points to posture,
bodily movements, viz. gesticulations, and the manner in which the body is
used in a particular circumstance. Posture is manifestation of
concentration, association, mutual standing among the persons, and the
extent to which the person is preferred. The depth of emotional conditions
can also be manifested through posture. The realm of posture is more or
less studied usually in combination with other types of nonverbal
communication behaviors. Gesticulations can be classified into types that
are linked with speech and those which are not. Gesticulations associated
with speech are employed to enhance vocal communication by exemplifying the
spoken expressions. Showing something, making sketches, showing a pulsating
movement or stressing on a point and some others like "discussing with your
hands" actions are gesticulations connected with verbal communications.
Gesticulations devoid of speech are simply like that -free from spo...