Body Lenguaje

UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE NUEVO LEON

Body Language

Profra.: Karen Flores

Equipo: Ramón Alberto García
Alejandro Isai Muñoz
Edgar Francisco Espinoza
Ángel Arnoldo Valdez
Carlos Alberto Hernández
Oscar Daniel Contreras
Aniceto Ibarra

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basics and introduction

Body Language - technically known as kinesics (pronounced 'kineesicks') - is a significant aspect ofmodern communications and relationships.
Body Language is therefore very relevant to management and leadership, and to all aspects of work and business where communications can be seen and physically observed among people.
Body language is also very relevant to relationships outside of work, for example in dating and mating, and in families and parenting.
Communication includes listening. In termsof observable body language, non-verbal (non-spoken) signals are being exchanged whether these signals are accompanied by spoken words or not.
Body language goes both ways:
* Your own body language reveals your feelings and meanings to others.
* Other people's body language reveals their feelings and meanings to you.
The sending and receiving of body language signals happens onconscious and unconscious levels.

Body language is a powerful concept which successful people tend to understand well.
So can you.
The study and theory of body language has become popular in recent years because psychologists have been able to understand what we 'say' through our bodily gestures and facial expressions, so as to translate our body language, revealing its underlying feelings andattitudes.
Body Language is also referred to as 'non-verbal communications', and less commonly 'non-vocal communications'.
The term 'non-verbal communications' tends to be used in a wider sense, and all these terms are somewhat vague.
For the purposes of this article, the terms 'body language' and 'non-verbal communications' are broadly interchangeable. This guide also takes the view that bodylanguage/non-verbal communications is the study of how people communicate face-to-face aside from the spoken words themselves, and in this respect the treatment of the subject here is broader than typical body language guides limited merely to body positions and gestures.


body language definitions
The Oxford English Dictionary (revised 2005) definition is:
"body language - noun - theconscious and unconscious movements and postures by which attitudes and feelings are communicated [for example]: his intent was clearly expressed in his body language."
The Oxford Business English Dictionary offers a slightly different definition. Appropriately and interestingly the Oxford Business English Dictionary emphasizes the sense that body language can be used as a tool, rather than it beingan involuntary effect with no particular purpose:
"body language - noun - the process of communicating what you are feeling or thinking by the way you place and move your body rather than by words [for example]: The course trains sales people in reading the customer's body language."
The OED dictionary definition of kinesics - the technical term for body language - depends on the interpretationof 'non-verbal communication':
"kinesics - the study of the way in which certain body movements and gestures serve as a form of non-verbal communication."
 
Body language is more than those brief descriptions.
* Body language certainly also encompasses where the body is in relation to other bodies (often referred to as 'personal space').
* Body language certainly also includes verysmall bodily movements such as facial expressions and eye movements.
* Body language also arguably covers all that we communicate through our bodies apart from the spoken words (thereby encompassing breathing, perspiration, pulse, blood-pressure, blushing, etc.)

body language and evolution
The evolutionary perspectives of body language are fascinating, in terms of its purpose and how it is...