This document discusses various forms of nonverbal communication including kinesics, posture, gesture, eye contact, facial expression, and personal appearance. Kinesics refers to body movements and postures that convey meaning. Posture can indicate attention level and mirroring postures leads to positive perceptions. Gestures supplement verbal communication and emblems are culture-specific gestures. Eye contact norms differ across cultures. Facial expressions communicate emotions. Personal appearance such as clothing can influence judgments of a person.

1. KINESICS
•Information about the relationship and affect of
these two skaters is communicated by their body
posture , eye gaze and physical contact.
•The term was first used(in1952) by Ray Birdwhistell
, an anthropologist who wished to study how people
communicate through posture, gesture , stance and
movement.
•Kinesics is the non-verbal behaviour related to

2. •movement, either of any part of the body, or the
body as a whole.
• In short all communicative body movements are
generally classfied as kinesics.

3. POSTURE
•Posture can be used to determine a participant’s
degree of attention or involvement.
• Studies investigeting the impact of posture on
interpersonal relationships suggest that mirror-image
congruent postures, where one person’s left side is
parallel to the other person’s right side,leads to
favourable perception of communicators and positive
speech;

4. Posture is understood through such indicators as direction of
lean, body orientation, arm position, and body openness.

5. GESTURE: A wink is a type of
geture :
• A gesture is a non-vocal bodily movement intended to
express meaning. They may be articulated with the hands,
arms or body, and also include movements of the head,face
and eyes, such as winkling, nodding, or rolling ones’ eyes.
The boundary between language and gesture, or verbal and
nonverbal communication, can be hard to identify.

6. •Although the study of gesture is still in its infancy,
some broad categories of gestures have been
identified by researchers. The most familiar are the
so-called emblems or quotable gestures. These are
conventional, culture-specific gestures that can be
used as replacement for words, such as the hand-
wave used in the U.S. for “hello” and “goodbye”. A
single emblematic gestures made with one hand,
two hands, hand and other body parts, and body and
facial gestures.

7. Eye contact
• Eyes can indicate interest, attention, and
involvement with audience members, while failure to
make eye contact may be interpreted as
disintersted,inattentive or rude.
• Different culteres have different rules for eye
contact,
Certain Asian cultures can perceive direct eye
contact as a way to signal competitiveness.
In other countries lower eyes is a signal of respect.
Eye contact is avoided in Nigeria.

9. Facial expression
• The face as a whole indicates much about human moods.
• Specific emotional states, such as happiness or sadness,
are expressed through a smile or a frown, respectively.
• Using all the various muscles that presicely control mouth,
lips, eyes, nose, forehead, and jaw, the human face is
estimated to capable of more than 10,000 different
expression.

12. Personal appearance
• The audience may judge the person on their personal
apperance.
• Clothing, mood, confiedence, interest, authority, and values
can judge the personal apperance of any person.
• Crossed arms, crossed legs is signal for closed posture.
But,open and relaxes hands, a wide stance is signal of open
posture and it communicates friendly and positive attitude.