Browsing by Subject "Smile"

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    Le sourire : conception vs perception (sur l’exemple de la communication non verbale des français, des espagnols et des russes)
    (2018-11-08) Sandakova, Elena
    The present study is placed within the context of kinesics and emphasises the importance of facial and corporal gestures in this kind of communication in foreign languages, taking into consideration the fact that all interactants are social actors in a multicultural reality. The analysis is based on the considerations of such authors as R. Birdwhistell, A. & B. Pease, P. Brown, S. Levinson, and C. Kerbrat-Orecchioni among others. Speci fi cally, it is focused on the conception of smile as a part of nonverbal politeness and visual language (photos) in settings of French, Spanish and Russian languages and cultures, as well as with the perception of smile among speakers of the communities under examination. Finally, the results of this work show that there is a disequilibrium between the perception of smile by out-group and its conception within in-group that is explained by ignorance of the social norms prevailing in nonverbal politness of the target culture, as well as by the persistance of stereotypes.