BODY LANGUAGE

Body language is a body movement that represent human’s feel and as a media language to show our expression without saying something. There a lot of body language that used by Indonesian. But in common they like to send their body language with eye contact, facial expressions and hand movement. There are several examples from each body language:

1. Eye contact
When someone talk to you, you can see he tell the truth or not by his eye contact. But some people assume that eye contact can measure how much they pay attention to someone who is talking to them. In other way, eye contact shows someone’s feelings to each other. So, we may conclude that eye contact has a lot of meaning.
2. Facial Expressions
We can express sadness, happiness, angry, and etcetera easily by our facial expressions. When someone feels happy, he likes to smile. When someone feels sad or angry, he likes to be sullen. So, with facial expression we can guess what someone’s feeling easily.
3. Hand movement
You can raise your thumb up when you agree with someone or you feel satisfied with something. Or you can put forefinger on your lips when you want someone to be quiet. In other way, you can wave your hand when you refusing something or show disagreement. So, with hand movement we know someone’s feeling.

So, from the examples above, we may conclude that body language can determine a lot of meaning although it through a simple movement.

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