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KINESICS

KINESICS

Gestures are the use of different expressions for conveying a certain message to people. During the observation of gestures of different people in our surrounding, various gestures observed that was associated with the body movement. While doing shopping in a mall, people were busy in gossips, eating, and selection of garments and other accessories for household use; but every person is expressing one or another gesture consciously and unconsciously. Some of the gestures were single-handed while others used two hands. There were great hustle and bustle in the mall. Next, are some gestures observed by me during shopping in one of the famous mall in our country.

Iconic gestures: it is the form of physical gesture when a person tries to differentiate between the big and small thing with the help of hands. Regulators: it is the movement of hand before taking any start of the conversation. Metaphoric gestures: the explanatory gestures that try to explain the complexity of concept via fingers, hands, and physical shaping. Beat gestures: the beating of hands, arms, and fingers that attracts the attention of listeners. Affect display: this gesture is linked with emotional disturbances and can be expressed via different ways like the rubbing of eyes, closing of a fist, holding hands and rubbing of mouth and ears. Emblems: these gestures are easily understood and have a single meaning like V shape of finger easily understood by others as a sign of victory. Illustrators: a gesture of direction that pointed toward a specific direction. Single-handed gestures: these are the form of gestures where only one hand can convey the meanings easily like fist bump show respect to someone, finger crossing is mostly linked with time to wait for something, etc. A-ok gestures: it is associated with the closing of the fist while the thumb remains straight. Salute: it is one of the common gestures showing respect for someone.

During the shopping, I have observed all above-mentioned gestures. While entering a shop with the hope to buy a pair of shoes for me, I saw a little girl asking for her shoes to a shopkeeper. She was too innocent that in spite of telling the shopkeeper about the size of her feet she was using iconic gesture just to guide him about her tiny cute feet. She used her hand for at least three times and every time the feet size was different. Then another place, again a little boy was using the metaphoric gesture in order to explain her mother about a toy car he needed but his mother was unable to catch his gesture even little boy repeated it almost five times. Afterward, he used a physical shape in order to convey his mother about the form of a car he needed.

Subsequently, swiftly when I looked at my back a boy was saluting to another boy who was the owner of the wristwatch shop. While I was roaming there I reached the second floor and a singing competition was going on. In that completion, a female singer won and expressed her happiness via the “V” sign of finger in order to celebrate her victory. Moving forward, a wave of great tension was spread in the mall; when an announcement had made by the administration of a mall about a lost child. His parents were in great tension and use their fingers in order to point his direction, where he was standing last time. The pointing of fingers by his parents is an example of illustrator.

During roaming here and there in the mall, I felt hungry and move in search of food. Someone told me that there are many food points on the 4th floor of the mall. I reached there and ordered some food for me. While I was enjoying my food, I saw two persons were sitting on a table and talking with each other by using different gestures, their discussion was mostly based on gestures of single hands and two hands as well. In short, the day was very calming for me because I have observed many gestures just at a single place.