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PRONUNCIATION OF KINESICS

kinesics  [kɪˈniːsɪks] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KINESICS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kinesics is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KINESICS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kinesics

Kinesics is the interpretation of body motion communication such as facial expressions and gestures — that is, nonverbal behavior related to movement of any part of the body or the body as a whole. The equivalent popular culture term is body language, a term Birdwhistell never used, and did not consider appropriate. Even so, many people use this term.

Definition of kinesics in the English dictionary

The definition of kinesics in the dictionary is the study of the role of body movements, such as winking, shrugging, etc, in communication.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KINESICS


basics
ˈbeɪsɪks
classics
ˈklæsɪks
coccyx
ˈkɒksɪks
eighty-six
ˌeɪtɪˈsɪks
Essex
ˈɛsɪks
forensics
fəˈrɛnsɪks
PYY3-36
ˌpiːwaɪwaɪˌθriːθɜːtɪˈsɪks
RU486
ˌɑːjuːˌfɔːreɪtˈsɪks
six
sɪks
Sussex
ˈsʌsɪks
Wessex
ˈwɛsɪks

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KINESICS

kinematics
kinematograph
kinematographer
kinematographic
kinematography
kinescope
kinesiatric
kinesiatrics
kinesic
kinesiologist
kinesiology
kinesipath
kinesipathic
kinesipathist
kinesipathy
kinesis
kinesitherapy
kinesthesia
kinesthesis
kinesthetic

WORDS THAT END LIKE KINESICS

astrophysics
atomic physics
attophysics
biophysics
geophysics
health physics
high-energy physics
metaphysics
microphysics
nanophysics
nuclear physics
particle physics
pataphysics
petrophysics
physics
psychophysics
solid-state physics
the classics
theoretical physics
to get back to basics

Synonyms and antonyms of kinesics in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kinesics» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KINESICS

Find out the translation of kinesics to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kinesics from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kinesics» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

身势学
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

kinésica
570 millions of speakers

English

kinesics
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

kinesics
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دراسات الحركات الجسدية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кинесика
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

kinesics
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

kinesics
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

kinésique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kinesik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kinesics
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

動作学
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

kinesics
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kinesics
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kinesics
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உடலசைவியல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

केनिक्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

vücut dilini inceleyen bilim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cinesica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kinezyka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кинесика
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kinesics
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Kinesics
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kinesics
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kinesics
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kinesics
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kinesics

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KINESICS»

The term «kinesics» is normally little used and occupies the 123.309 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KINESICS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «kinesics» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «kinesics» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kinesics

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KINESICS»

Discover the use of kinesics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kinesics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Kinesics and Context: Essays on Body Motion Communication
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 ...
Ray L. Birdwhistell, 2011
2
Nonverbal Communication Across Disciplines: Paralanguage, ...
In a progressive and systematic approach to communication, and always through an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, this first volume presents culture as an intricate grid of sensible and intelligible sign systems in space ...
Fernando Poyatos, 2002
3
Kinesics: the power of silent command
Illustrates the use and importance of body language in business and personal situations and describes techniques for developing and instituting effective non-verbal communication
Merlyn Cundiff, 1972
4
Handbook of Semiotics
Following Bird- whistell, this field of research is often subsumed under the designation of kinesics, but many social psychologists use this term only for Bird- whistell's own structuralist approach to the field. The study of gesticulation ( parallel to ...
Winfried Nöth, 1995
5
Nonverbal Communication Across Disciplines: Culture, sensory ...
CHAPTER. 4. Language-paralanguage-kinesics. The. basic. triple. structure. of. human. communication. "Oh! To hear him!' cried my sister, with a clap of her hands and a scream together (Dickens, G£, XV) The heavenly gentleness of his smile ...
Fernando Poyatos, 2002
6
Culture Bound: Bridging the Cultural Gap in Language Teaching
6 Kinesics and cross-cultural understanding Genelle G. Morain University of Georgia I grew up in Iowa and I knew what to do with butter: you put it on roastin' ears, pancakes, and popcorn. Then I went to France and saw a Frenchman put ...
Joyce Merrill Valdes, 1986
7
Effective Teaching: Preparation and Implementation
Of particular interest to the classroom teacher are the following types of nonverbal symbols (Figure 3-3): (1) kinesics, (2) proxemics, (3) haptics, (4) oculesics, (5) paralanguage, (6) chronemics, and (7) environmental factors (O' Hair, Friedrich, ...
Gilbert Hunt, Dennis Wiseman, Timothy J. Touzel, 2009
8
Focus on Nonverbal Communication Research
This book brings forth new and important research in this field.
Finley R. Lewis, 2007
9
Kinesics
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Nethanel Willy, 2011
10
Textual Translation and Live Translation: The Total ...
This treatment of translation includes theater and cinema (enriching our intellectual-sensorial experience of both 'reading act' and 'viewing act') and offers among other topics: sensorial-intellectual-emotional pre- and post-reading ...
Fernando Poyatos, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KINESICS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kinesics is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Open City Documentary Festival: Observing the Grand Jury Winner
... control their body kinesics impersonating human reactions and multitudes of modes of feelings which, exposed to the abject idle family in the ... «Huffington Post UK, Jun 15»
2
Why the 'pool party' arrest hysteria is (again) dead wrong
In the book Left of Bang, Patrick Van Horne and Jason A. Riley explain the concepts of combat profiling, universal behaviors and clusters, kinesics, and ... «Police News, Jun 15»
3
Veteran detective shares his secrets for solving homicides
The kinesics indicative of deception are because you are nervous or because you are lying and there's certain things a detective can look for. «The Pasadena Star-News, May 15»
4
FBI's FIFA probe – lessons to be learnt
... software (EnCase, etc), graphology; polygraph; psychometrics; interviewing/interrogation techniques; kinesics; and expert testimonies. «Jamaica Gleaner, May 15»
5
Solitude Creek Is Deaver at His Most Dynamic
She is especially gifted in the area of Kinesics, which is the study of body language. After her appearance in that book, Deaver started a new ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
6
In retrial, Clearwater man once again found guilty of molesting girl
Kinesics purports to help people determine someone's truthfulness based on their body language and facial expressions. But the court said it's ... «Tampabay.com, May 15»
7
Continuing professional development (CPD)
Another, a vice-dean of business in Frankfurt U, went also into staff development, focusing on body language/kinesics also termed as visual ... «The Manila Times, May 15»
8
The bargain buy
... they too had bought from the same venue at half the price I paid. On way home the wife wryly remarked that I had a lot to learn in kinesics. «Chandigarh Tribune, May 15»
9
Is dance still a relevant medium? UP Mindanao dancers answer and …
But more than that, the repertoire showcases the interrelatedness of those simple movements and expressions in the modern body kinesics ... «Minda News, May 15»
10
Basic African Communication Systems
... smell (olfactory communication),taste (gustatory communication), hearing (auditory/vocal communication) and motion (kinesics). The human ... «Nigerian Observer, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Kinesics [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/kinesics>. May 2024 ».
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