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Series
Brill's studies in language cognition and culture volume Volume 8
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Publisher
Odyssey Productions
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This program examines nonverbal communication in different cultures. It looks at personal space; body language including gestures, inflection, eye contact, smiling and other facial expressions; and posture. It demonstrates how the same gesture can be interpreted in different ways.
Author
Series
Sign languages and deaf communities volume 9
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Research on nonmanual elements or nonmanuals in sign languages has focused on both the possible functions and the occurrence (frequency and form) of these elements in recent years. As a matter of fact, research on nonmanuals is still a quite uncharted territory in Austrian Sign Language (OGS) today, which has also initiated the study given. In order to identify head and body movements in OGS, these nonmanuals were determined and analyzed functionally...
Publisher
Insight Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Diversity specialist Norine Dresser outlines differences in behaviors among non-U.S. cultures and introduces multicultural manners. The program covers such topics as greetings, shaking hands, eye contact, smiling, embracing, and kissing; emphasizes that acceptable norms vary among cultures and examines cultural variations in eating customs.
Author
Series
Dance Horizons republication volume 42
Publisher
[Dance Horizons]
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
CICO Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Power of Breath and Hand Yoga, Christine Burke shows how you already have all you need to heal both physical and emotional conditions and improve your overall wellbeing. Breath awareness has been linked to calming the body and brain, regulating blood pressure, improving memory and immune function, preventing heart attacks and easing chronic pain asthma. Mudras are known as 'yoga for the hands': they are hand poses and positions that channel energy...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Imagine a friend who earnestly tells you that he thinks men and women are equally good leaders. But when he talks about men's leadership skills, he places his palm at eye-level, and when he talks about women's leadership skills, he places his palm a bit lower, at mouth-level. His hands have given him away: even if he truly thinks that his views are egalitarian, he holds an implicit belief that is now there for all the word to see. You swear you heard...
60) Moví la mano
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
A little girl moves her hand and discovers that she is changing the world around her, and as she does so she comes to recognize her own ability to creates something new.