LANGUAGE+AND+COMMUNICATION

__**COMMUNICATION: PARALLEL SYSTEMS**__
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What we know about “body language” referent to Pragmatic:

**Verbal behaviour:** what you say with words, for example.

**Kinetic behaviour (movements and gestures):** Non verbal signs as:
 * ** Emblems: ** substitute for words and phrases.
 *  **Illustrators:** accompany or reinforce verbal messages.
 *  **Affect displayers:** show emotion.
 *  **Regulators:** control the flow and the pace of communication.
 * **<span style="color: #afe65e; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Adaptors: ** release physical or emotional tension.

Kinetic behavior is an important part of non-verbal communication behavior. The movement of the body, or separate parts, conveys many specific meanings and the interpretations may be culture bound. As many movements are carried out at a subconscious or at least a low-awareness level, kinesic movements carry a significant risk of being misinterpreted in an intercultural communications situation.

**Proxemic:** measurable distances between people as they interact. The term was introduced by anthropologist Edward T. Hall in 1966. In animals, Swiss zoologist Heini Hediger had distinguished between flight distance (run boundary), critical distance (attack boundary), personal distance (distance separating members of non-contact species, as a pair of swans), and social distance (intraspecies communication distance). Hall reasoned that, with very few exceptions, flight distance and critical distance have been eliminated in human reactions, and thus interviewed hundreds of people to determine modified criteria for human interactions. Body spacing and posture, according to Hall, are unintentional reactions to sensory fluctuations or shifts, such as subtle changes in the sound and pitch of a person's voice.


 * Semiotics: ** is the study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is closely related to the field of linguistics, which, for its part, studies the structure and meaning of language more specifically. Semiotics is often divided into three branches:
 * ** Semantics: ** Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata, or meaning.
 * **Syntctics:** Relations among signs in formal structures.
 * **Pragmatics:** Relation between signs and the effects they have on the people who use them.


 * Paralaguage: **refers to the non-verbal elements of communication used to modify meaning and convey emotion. Paralanguage may be expressed consciously or unconsciously, and it includes the pitch, volume, and, in some cases, intonation of speech . Sometimes the definition is restricted to vocally-produced sounds. The study is known as **paralinguistics**.