Kinesics and Context : : Essays on Body Motion Communication / Ray L. Birdwhistell.

• VerfasserIn: Birdwhistell, Ray L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Conduct and Communication
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Editor's Note --; Contents --; Introduction --; PART I. Learning to Be a Human Body --; PART II. Isolating Behavior --; PART III. Approaching Behavior --; PART IV. Collecting Data: Observing, Filming, and Interviewing --; PART V. Research on An Interview --; Appendixes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780812201284
• DOI: 10.9783/9780812201284
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ray L. Birdwhistell.

Ray L. Birdwhistell, in this study of human body motion (a study he terms kinesics), advances the theory that human communication needs and uses all the senses, that the information conveyed by human gestures and movements is coded and patterned differently in various cultures, and that these codes can be discovered by skilled scrutiny of particular movements within a social context.