신체언어 연구의 생태학적 관점

The Ecological Perspective on the Study of Body Language

This paper shows the ecological perspective on the study of body languages. Linguistic signs are the most basic communicative elements. In general, communication is a process in which information is transmitted from one source to another for a purpose goal. The purpose of this process aims at the association and assimilation for the survival. Many aspects of human communication, specially non-verbal communication, connects deeply with animal communication. There is an interesting relationship between animal behavior and human behavior in processing communication. Human behavior is more diverse than animal behavior and less traceable back to clear purposes connected with the survival of the species. However, it is equally possible to differentiate between human actions with a physical purpose and human actions with a communicative purpose. Body language is a sort of human communicative media. It has emerged from actions with a physical purpose which were combined with the indicating of this purpose. Body language has gradually lost the original purpose in favor of the mere indicating. This paper considers body language, i.e., emblematic everyday gestures (=conven- tional movement patterns) with fixed meanings, which are produced for communicative purposes.