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• Title:
  Human body-gesture capacity: the tense – lax distinction: a preliminary outline of research work
• Creator:
  Puppel, Joanna
• Description:
  In phonology, the terms ‘tenseness’ (tensing) and ‘laxness’ (laxing) are an important pair pertaining to the distinctive features of vowels. A similar dichotomy, ‘tenseness’ – ‘laxness’, can also be observed in the body-gesture (B-G) behaviors. On the basis of this distinction, the author of the article proposes to make a division between two body–gesture cultures, namely: the ‘lax B-G cultures’, and the ‘tense B-G cultures’, respectively. Additionally, the author constructs two working hypotheses. Namely:Hypothesis no. 1 (H1):(H1a): The laxer the B-G system is, the less ritual (and more casual) a given communication act happens to be.(H1b): The relationship “lax body posture + lax gesture” correlates with full spoken, profane (non-ritual) communication potential.Hypothesis no. 2 (H2):(H2a): The tenser the B-G system is, the more ritual a given communication act happens to be.(H2b): The relationship “tense body posture + tense gesture” correlates with full spoken, ritual (nonprofane) communication potential.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2019.02.07
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Scripta Neophilologica Posnaniensia; No. 18 (2018); 73-81;
  Scripta Neophilologica Posnaniensia; Nr 18 (2018); 73-81;
  1509-4146
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/snp/article/view/17814/17547
• Subject:
  human body;
  gesture;
  tense and lax body-gesture
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/snp/article/view/17814
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text