The idea that language exerts a strong influence on perceptions and world view of the people who speak it. Proxemics refers to space and how we use it . Every culture has norms for using space and how close people should be to one another. Space also announces status with greater space being assumed by those with higher status. How people arrange space can closely reflect whether or not they want interaction.
Eyes can communicate both dominance and submission.
In Western culture downcast eyes are a sign of giving in, but in some religious orders members are expected to keep eyes down while addressing a superior. Even our pupils communicate. Polt and Hess discovered that our pupils dialate in proportion to our interest in an object. He asserts that they were used as survival mechanisms that allowed early humans to convey emotional states before the development of language. Posture is the way we carry our selves, and it is a way we communicate non-verbally.