Which of the following are true of kinesics, a type of non-verbal…

Concept

Kinesics is the systematic study of communicative body movement, including gesture, posture, and facial expression. The movements studied may carry potential meanings because people interpret them through social and cultural conventions.

Application

1. The claim that kinesics conveys no meaning conflicts with the definition: body movements studied in kinesics can function as non-verbal signs and convey meaning.

2. The claim that kinesics does not reflect an individual’s social system conflicts with its social basis: body-language conventions are learned and interpreted within social systems.

3. The claim that an individual’s body movements can have potential meanings follows from the communicative role of gesture, posture, and facial expression.

4. The claim that kinesics can undergo systematic analysis follows from its status as a field of study: observable movement patterns can be classified and analyzed.

5. The claim that body language forms part of a social system shared with others follows from the role of learned, shared conventions.

Cross-check and contrast

• The combination containing both the denial of meaning and the denial of social context conflicts with the meaning-bearing, socially situated nature of kinesics.

• The combination containing the social-context denial alongside the potential-meaning and systematic-analysis claims still separates body language from its social setting.

• The combination of potential meaning, systematic analysis, and shared social context preserves all three defining features.

• The combination containing the denial of meaning alongside systematic analysis and shared social context still denies the communicative phenomenon being studied.

Result

Therefore, the true claims are that body movements can have potential meanings, kinesics can be analyzed systematically, and body language forms part of a social system shared with others.