GESTURE, BODY LANGUAGE AND SIGN LANGUAGE
071079 Haruna Higuchi
Gesture: You move a
(
) of your body.
Body language: You show your feeling with
e.g. Greetings…bow, shake hands
(
) of your body.
e.g.. touch a mouth or nose → People may be telling a lie.
Sign language: It’s a (
) usually used by deaf people.
1. The differences
Meaning
Gesture
Grammar and Vocabulary
Body
Sound
×
part
×
depends on the
culture
○
Body
language
Sign
language
×
universal
entire
or verbal
language
depends on
○
hand,
each sign
(different for each sign
face,
language
language)
lips
×
2. The social significance of non-verbal communication
Components of communication
(Albert Mehrabian, 1971)
The total impact of a massage
1.
Verbal components
2.
Vocal components
3.
Non-verbal
(words only)
(tone of voice, inflection and other sounds)
(facial expression)
7%
38%
55%
Edward T. Hall: “60 percent of all our communication is nonverbal.”
Daniel Goleman: 90 percent of our emotions are expressed nonverbally.”
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3. How do deaf children acquire sign language?
Hearing-abled children
Deaf children
6-8 weeks: cooing
↓
6-8 months: babbling (喃語)
↓
Marginal babbling (過渡期の喃語)
↓
↓
9 months: canonical babbling (基準喃語)
9 months: babbling by hands (手による喃語)
↓
↓
1 year-old: holophrase (一語文)
1 year-old: a word of sign language (手話単語)
↓
↓
2 year-olds: two-word sentence (二語文)
2 year-olds: make simple sentence with 2
words
※After 2 years old, both types of babies …
pick out phonemes and rules which combine phonemes, and know its meaning.
→communicate by sound or hands
Babbling by hands→
Pettito L. A.
(1991)
References
★October, 1997 Gestures: The Do’s and Taboos of Body Language Around the World
Roger E. Axtell
★1981 Body Language: How to read other’s thoughts by their gestures
★2007
『少数言語としての手話』
Allan Pease
斉藤くるみ
★http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Gesture
★http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture
★http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Sign_language
★http://jalt-publications.org/archive/proceedings/2006/E056.pdf
★http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kibono/sumika/kibo/note/oto/oto-5.htm
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