Nonverbal language – the weapon of the insurance agent

Within the insurance process, the person who insures as well as the person who wishes to buy an insurance policy must control well enough the communication techniques. In deed, the insurance is grounded on communication. Various scientific researches showed that most people involved in a business are very careful to what they say and the way they say it. Along with the way we speak, in the insurance field as well as in other many fields we tried to emplasize the necessity of ackowledging and controlling the nonverbal communication techiniques.nonverbal communication, insurance

Spiritual and Physical Interpretations of Dance, Clap and Gesticulation in African Indigenous Churches in Nigeria

Though dance, clap and gesticulation (DCG) are among the practices exhibited during worship in African Indigenous Churches (AIC) among the Yoruba people of Nigeria, the facts that they are performed enthusiastically, spontaneously and vigorously have overshadowed the innate benefits they portend. Until the benefits are identified, many would continually believe that they are unnecessary, unseemly and noisy. This study examines the significances of DCG in AIC in relation to their implications for human’s spiritual and physical wellness.  Five AIC branches were selected in Southwestern Nigeria and unstructured interviews were conducted with 50 laities, ten from each branch. Some of the information provided by them have been reflected in this study. A ten-week participant observation monitoring (two weeks spent on each brand of the five AIC) was also conducted. Data have been reduced to Content Analysis and Simple Descriptive Analysis. DCG have spiritual and physical significances. Under spiritual significance, the vigor exerted is proportional to excitement and effectiveness in worship. Stamping of feet signifies health, strength, and power, passion, suppressing evil and shaking off problems as physical and spiritual weakness. Hand waving symbolizes freedom and victory over enemy. Clapping, feet stamping and vigorous hand waving prevent evil spirits from hibernating within the prayer arena. Dance facilitates healing while clapping symbolizes warfare and victory. Under physical significance, DCG are aerobic though they are done unconsciously. The overall health advantages vis-à-vis aerobics are less considered because they are the byproducts of the calisthenics. While dancing and clapping, sweat is produced leading to release of tensions. DCG aid digestion and sound sleep, increase muscles, bones and cardiovascular strength and aid coordination and balance. DCG in AIC lead to the attainment of physical fitness and spiritual ecstasy; therefore, Spirituality and DCG are related: they connect to facilitate human wellness. Keywords: Dance, clap and gesticulation, Aerobics, Physical activities, Human wellness, Sickness, Healing, Ecstasy,

Non-verbal behaviour on the Roman comic stage

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Therapeutic Use of Mudras in Dance/movement Therapy with Children in a Partial Hospital Program: The Development of a Method

Mudras are a codified set of gestures from different parts of the body in Indian Classical Dance and Yoga. Mudras in literary sources often refer to specific hand gestures. The thesis includes research on the use of mudras (hand gestures) from Indian classical dance and yoga in dance/movement therapy (DMT) to yield expressive and healing benefits. The research question explored “the extent to which mudras enhance self-expression and aid in building coping skills for stress, with children in a Partial Hospitalization Program.” An intervention was developed by considering the therapeutic implications of mudras and drawing parallels to elements of DMT, narrative therapy and projective techniques. The method was implemented with children between 7-11 years in a partial hospital program in expressive therapy and psychoeducation groups. Expressive therapy aimed at using mudras as a movement-based tool for storytelling and psychoeducation directed participants to build body-based coping skills for stress through mudras. Qualitative data was collected and compared to the existing literature. The themes that emerged from this research included participation, self-expression, comprehension, postural changes and regulatory effects on the body. While this research explored the use of mudras with children in a partial hospitalization program, the use of this method with different populations in different settings is also discussed. The literature shows a need for culturally diverse, codified, movement-based interventions. This study attempted to bridge that gap by exploring the use of mudras in a therapeutic setting and developing a protocol for their use in different settings and with different populations

Expressing Robot Personality through Talking Body Language

Social robots must master the nuances of human communication as a mean to convey an effective message and generate trust. It is well-known that non-verbal cues are very important in human interactions, and therefore a social robot should produce a body language coherent with its discourse. In this work, we report on a system that endows a humanoid robot with the ability to adapt its body language according to the sentiment of its speech. A combination of talking beat gestures with emotional cues such as eye lightings, body posture of voice intonation and volume permits a rich variety of behaviors. The developed approach is not purely reactive, and it easily allows to assign a kind of personality to the robot. We present several videos with the robot in two different scenarios, and showing discrete and histrionic personalities.This work has been partially supported by the Basque Government (IT900-16 and Elkartek 2018/00114), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (RTI 2018-093337-B-100, MINECO/FEDER, EU)

Modifications and Frequency Occurrence of Gestures in Ns - Ns and Nns - Ns Dyads

In this study, I investigate cross-linguistic differences and similarities in the speech associated gesture in the NS (Native Speaker) - NS and NNS (Nonnative Speaker) - NS dyads when they are telling a narrative. The gesture production between Indonesian native speakers when communicating in Indonesian (L1) and in English (L2) was coded and assessed based on Mc.Neill\u27s model of overall gesture units. The Indonesian speakers\u27 gesture modification when interacting in English was measured by the size of the gestures. The results indicate that Indonesian native speakers gesture more when they communicate in English and modify their gestures by making them bigger and therefore more noticeable to their interlocutors. They use gestures as a communication strategy to help interlocutors comprehend their idea

Introduction: Multimodal interaction

That human social interaction involves the intertwined cooperation of different modalities is uncontroversial. Researchers in several allied fields have, however, only recently begun to document the precise ways in which talk, gesture, gaze, and aspects of the material surround are brought together to form coherent courses of action. The papers in this volume are attempts to develop this line of inquiry. Although the authors draw on a range of analytic, theoretical, and methodological traditions (conversation analysis, ethnography, distributed cognition, and workplace studies), all are concerned to explore and illuminate the inherently multimodal character of social interaction. Recent studies, including those collected in this volume, suggest that different modalities work together not only to elaborate the semantic content of talk but also to constitute coherent courses of action. In this introduction we present evidence for this position. We begin by reviewing some select literature focusing primarily on communicative functions and interactive organizations of specific modalities before turning to consider the integration of distinct modalities in interaction

ANGELICA : choice of output modality in an embodied agent

The ANGELICA project addresses the problem of modality choice in information presentation by embodied, humanlike agents. The output modalities available to such agents include both language and various nonverbal signals such as pointing and gesturing. For each piece of information to be presented by the agent it must be decided whether it should be expressed using language, a nonverbal signal, or both. In the ANGELICA project a model of the different factors influencing this choice will be developed and integrated in a natural language generation system. The application domain is the presentation of route descriptions by an embodied agent in a 3D environment. Evaluation and testing form an integral part of the project. In particular, we will investigate the effect of different modality choices on the effectiveness and naturalness of the generated presentations and on the user's perception of the agent's personality

Rabbinic Body Language: Non-Verbal Communication in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity

This study constitutes the first comprehensive examination of rabbinic body language represented in Palestinian rabbinic sources of late antiquity. Catherine Hezser examines rabbis’ appearance and demeanor, spatial movement, gestures, and facial expressions on the basis of literary and social-anthropological methods and theories. She discusses the various forms of rabbis’ non-verbal communication in the context of Graeco-Roman and ancient Christian literary sources and in connection with the material culture of Roman and early Byzantine Palestine. Catherine Hezser convincingly shows that in rabbinic literature body language serves as an important means of rabbis’ self-fashioning. Rabbinic texts create the image of a particularly Jewish type of intellectual who functioned and competed for adherents within the highly visual and body-conscious environment of late antiquity

Drawn encounters, complex identities

A two day conference at The British School at Rome examining drawing as a means to document, encounter and exchange experiences of place and cultural identity, in the context of travel, diaspora and the colonial and post-colonial histories of Australia and the UK. The conference was organised by The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London, Monash University of Art and Design, Australia and The British School at Rome. A series of discussions and presentation by leading international artists, academics and archivists