kinesic, a. Linguistics.
(kaɪˈniːsɪk)
[f. Gr. κίνησ(ις movement + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to communication effected non-vocally through movements or gestures. Hence kiˈnesically adv.
| 1952 R. L. Birdwhistell Introd. Kinesics (U.S. Dept. State, Foreign Service Inst.) 15 It is suggested that any student beginning kinesic recording work on but one part of the body at a time. 1952 Rep. 3rd Ann. Round Table Meeting Ling. & Lang. Teaching (Georgetown Univ. Inst. Lang.) 66 A rather thorough preliminary study of kinesics has indicated that the kinesic system can be analyzed and described. 1955 Etc.: Rev. Gen. Semantics XIII. i. 18 He was kinesically more ‘mature’ than the other boys. 1959 College English XX. iv. 172 Kinesic and paralinguistic phenomena constitute separate patterned systems, which differ in their structure from culture to culture. 1964 Crystal & Quirk Prosodic & Paralinguistic Features Eng. ii. 18 Those kinesic phenomena which are unintended by the individual. 1965 L. Pederson in Lang. Programs for Disadvantaged (U.S. Nat. Council Teachers of English) 247 Most speech occurs in the form of dialogue with two or more participants actively cooperating at the structural, paralinguistic, kinesic, proxemic, and haptic level. 1967 L. Thayer Communication 61 Inspection of the working transcript of the linguistically and kinesically recorded data revealed repetitive and apparently systematic body behaviors. 1968 Amer. Speech XLIII. 202 There are many conventionalized kinesic systems, each with its own hierarchy. 1972 J. L. Dillard Black English v. 203 It is quite believable..that gestural and kinesic cues might ‘give away’ a member of the Negro subculture to people who knew that culture. |