Nonverbal Communication in Arabic Literature: A Study of Kinetic Expression

Abstract

Abstract

The study of body language and its connotations in Arabic poetry through selected models is a study that works to integrate two human specializations (literary and psychological) by focusing on the importance of clarifying the poets’ intentions by focusing on body language.

And their great knowledge of its connotations, even though it is a modern science and interest in it is not far away, the poets’ insight enabled them to understand its connotations, and this is what became clear through their depiction of the body language and its movements which they depicted, and they worked to strengthen it with metaphors and similes that explained these movements.

Hence, this study aims to explain the physical signs contained in Arabic poetry and to investigate what these poems added in terms of gestures, signs, and physical movements that were depicted in a literary manner.