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Pease, Allan
Body language. – (Overcoming common problems)
1. Nonverbal communication
I. Title II. Series
0 01. 56 P99.5
ISBN 0-8 596 9-4 0 6-2
Printed in Great ...
Box 16 12, North Sydney, 2060, Australia
Copyright â Allan Pease 19 81
First published March 19 84 by Sheldon Press,
SPCK Building, Marylebone Road, London
NWl 4DU...
... 1 .22 metres or 18 to 48 inches)
This is the distance that we stand from others at cocktail parties, office parties,
social functions and friendly gatherings.
3. Social Zone (between 1 .22 and ... over others.
There are three main palm command gestures: the palm-up position, the palm-down
position and the palm-closed-finger-pointed position. The differences of the three
Three
Palm Ges...
...
forgetfulness, but when he slaps the back of his neck (Figure 68) he non-verbally tells
you that you are literally a ‘pain-in-the-neck’ for pointing out his error. Those who
habitually rub the backs ... as cigarettes, pipes, pens and the like into it. Whereas most hand-to-mouth
gestures involve lying or deception, the fingers-in-mouth gesture is an outward
manifestation of an inner need...
... one-to-one confrontation with a straddler on a swivel chair?
It is pointless to try to reason with him, particularly when he is on a swivelling merry-
go-round, so the best defence is non-verbal ... substitute a subtler version - the partial
arm cross, in which one arm swings across the body to hold or touch the other arm to
form the barrier, as shown in Figure 75.
The partial arm...
... a belt or pocket (Figure
104).
Male-Male Aggression
Figure 105 shows two men sizing each other up, using the characteristic
hands-on-hips and thumbs-in-belt gestures. Considering that they ... openly exposing his heart
and throat in a non-verbal display of fearlessness. This position can be further
reinforced by placing the - feet evenly apart on the ground or by adding clenched fis...
... that glasses-in-mouth is essentially a reassurance
gesture. Smokers use their cigarettes for the same reason, and the child sucks his thumb.
Stalling
Like pipe smoking, the glasses-in-mouth gesture ... make towards the female is the
aggressive thumbs-in-belt gesture that highlights his genital region (see Figure 103).
He may also turn his body towards her and point his foot at her. He...
... height can also be detrimental to some aspects of
one-to-one communication where you need to ‘talk on the same level’ or have an
‘eye-to-eye’ discussion with another person.
Most women curtsey ... end. Similarly, an up-and-coming employee may be seen copying his boss’s
gestures in an attempt to show agreement. Using this knowledge, it is possible to
influence a face-to-face encounter by...
... visitor’s back was to the open door.
5. John often sat in the both-hands-behind-head position (Figure 96 ) and in the
leg-over-chair position (Figure 132) whenever a subordinate was in his office. ... others for a living, mastery of body point and swivel
chair techniques are very useful skills to acquire. In your day-to-day encounters with
others, foot pointing, body pointing and pos...
... evident here.
Both-hands-on-head shows a superior ‘know-it-all’ attitude and feet-on-desk shows a
territorial claim to it. To further highlight his status he has a high-status, leaning-back
has ... using the hands-on-hips gesture and the man on the right the thumbs-in-belt. The
man on the left is less aggressive than the man on the right as he is leaning backwards
and his body is poin...
... meet/meat merger (ME
/
e, ε/)
The end of the traditional GVS proper (3. 2 .3. 1, 3. 2 .3. 3) is the completion
of the raisings of the Middle English mid and low long vowels by one
height; by about 1650 ME ... and
adding long [a] (war, torn: 3. 4 .2. 7).
(e) Monophthongisation of ME diphthongs except /oi/ (boy), /ui/ (join),
/iu/ (new), /εu/ (dew: 3. 4 .2. 1 3. 4...
... disturbances of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries, most notably the Montrose Wars and the
Jacobite uprisings of
17 15
and 17 45. With the vicious repression of the
Highlands after the defeat of
the
... that of southern
English is the presence of a front rounded vowel, the reflex of OE /o:/.
The phonetic quality of this vowel may have been higher t...