body language

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body language (usually uncountable, plural body languages)

1. Nonverbal communication by means of facial expressions, eye behavior, gestures, posture, and the like; often thought to be involuntary.
   • 2017 May 21, Jamie Jackson, “Josh Harrop sets Manchester United on way to win over Crystal Palace”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     The one question is whether Paul Pogba was taken off just before half-time to rest him or because of a problem. The midfielder’s body language suggested it was the former and he appeared on the pitch after the final whistle.

2. Deliberate, usually culturally influenced, nonverbal communication using the body through facial expressions, gestures, dance, mime, etc.
   • 2000, Julius Fast, Body Language‎^[2]:

     There are, however, body languages that can transcend cultural lines.

   • 2004, Drid Williams, “Body Language(s)”, in Anthropology and the Dance: Ten Lectures, page 163:

     As with spoken languages, body languages are used by everyone to live out their lives, to communicate, and to accomplish things in the world — all of which can be done with more or less success with no awareness of the rule-structures that govern the use of body language or its connection with the culture, far less the metaphysics of self that is involved.

   • 2008, P. Brunelli - Uptodate Fashion Academy, 2.03: Body language & imagination, in Emotional Trend: Psyche > Creativity > Beauty to Fashion,

     In artistic terms, the synthesis between body languages and dressing languages is expressed in dances, since the rhythmic and creative movement of the body reveals emotions and culture.

Translations

non-verbal communication

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肢體語言／肢体语言 (zhītǐ yǔyán), 身體語言／身体语言 (shēntǐ yǔyán), 身勢語／身势语 (shēnshìyǔ)

• Danish: kropssprog n
• Dutch: lichaamstaal (nl) f
• Esperanto: Korpesprimo
• Estonian: kehakeel
• Finnish: kehonkieli (fi)
• French: langage du corps m, langage corporel m
• German: Körpersprache (de) f
• Hungarian: testbeszéd (hu)
• Indonesian: bahasa tubuh (id)
• Italian: linguaggio del corpo m
• Japanese: ボディーランゲージ (bodī rangēji), 身体言語 (しんたいげんご, shintaigengo)
• Kazakh: дене тілі (dene tılı)
• Korean: 몸짓 언어 (momjit eoneo), 보디랭귀지 (bodiraenggwiji)
• Macedonian: го́вор на те́лото m (góvor na téloto), гестикула́ција f (gestikulácija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kroppsspråk n

  Nynorsk: kroppsspråk n

• Polish: mowa ciala f
• Portuguese: linguagem corporal f
• Romanian: gesticulație (ro) f
• Russian: язы́к те́ла m (jazýk téla), язы́к же́стов m (jazýk žéstov), жестикуля́ция (ru) f (žestikuljácija)
• Spanish: movimientos (es) m, expresiones físicas f, kinésica (es) f, quinésica f
• Swedish: kroppsspråk (sv) n
• Thai: ภาษากาย (th) (paa-sǎa gaai)
• Turkish: vücut dili (tr), beden dili (tr)
• Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ cơ thể