Essays about: "body language perception"

Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the words body language perception.

  1. 6. Clothing Darwinism : Absent Bodies

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

    Author : Courtney Makins; [2019]
    Keywords : Material; Sculpture; Form; Stiffness; Innovative; Evolution;

    Abstract : Garments are everywhere in today’s society and often presented on the body, although the absence of the body in design can have an integral impact on how they are perceived by an audience. An experimental material coating, aided garments to become sculptural by portraying the essence of the body. READ MORE

  3. 7. Good hand, bad hand: correlations between gesturing hand and speech valence

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Linea Brink Andersen; [2018]
    Keywords : body-specificity hypothesis; embodied cognition; emotions; gestures; pragmatic gestures; valence.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : There is general agreement that the body expresses emotion, and while there is research on the expression of emotion in so-called “body language” (e.g. facial expression, posture), only little research exists on the expression of emotion in hand gestures. READ MORE

  4. 8. Suburban Swedish maturing : Examining variation and perceptions among adult speakers of Swedish contemporary urban vernacular

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Nathan Young; [2014]
    Keywords : Rinkeby Swedish; slang; Suburban Swedish; contemporary urban vernacular; normalized pairwise variability index; nPVI; prosodic rhythm; linguistic artifacts; sociophonetic variation; meta-pragmatic stereotypes; prestige forms; rinkebysvenska; förortsslang; förortssvenska;

    Abstract : Up to now, adolescent speakers have been the primary focus when researching contemporary variation in the language of Sweden’s urban areas. This study contributes to the growing body of research on the topic by examining and reporting on adult speakers of what is here referred to as förortssvenska (English: Suburban Swedish). READ MORE