Russian Body Language Study

Kinesics language, as means of non-verbal expressions, plays an important aided role in verbal communication. The studies of kinesics started from modern times and some achievements have been made in this area. Nowadays, the study of kinesics tends to combine with linguistic theory, which obviously deepens the study of kinesics.Thesis clarifies the concepts, classification, and features of kinesics language, generalizes the meaning of emotional expressions with the principles and method of case-analysis. The thesis also gives semantic description of gestures, head language, eye language perceptively, giving prominence to the classification of smile language meaning, pointing out the communicative functions of head language, and eye language in particular context the problems existing in the study of kinesis at present and the research tasks headed to be done in this field. The thesis finally brings up the ideas of constructing the lexical types and internal semantic types of kinesics language.