You cannot hear a word he says, but you see his postures, gestures, and facial expressions. You see his kinesics . Linguistic analogy . The anthropological term for body language . Students of kinesics searched for a grammar of body movements , facial expressions , and gestures , much as descriptive linguists formulated a grammatical structure of words .
Social personality is a tempero-spacial system.
The first premise in developing this type of notational system for body language, Dr. Birdwhistell says, is to assume that all movements of the body have meaning.