The term kinesics caught on among the linguists of the time, but in the 1960s, the kineme went the way of the phoneme. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3] Reference
The study of body language is called kinesics (kin EE sicks). From Wordnik.com. [EzineArticles] Reference
The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation's foremost kinesics - body language-expert. From Wordnik.com. [Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver: Book summary] Reference
In an electrifying psychological jousting match, Dance calls up all her skills as an interrogator and kinesics -- body language -- expert to get to the truth behind Daniel Pell. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver: Book summary] Reference
In spotting lies, interrogators consider three factors: nonverbal behavior (body language, or kinesics), verbal quality (pitch of voice or pauses before answering) and verbal content (what the suspect says). From Wordnik.com. [THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP] Reference
Remember, Rihannsu and Vulcan culture have been diverging for thousands of years…and most of the subconscious cues buried in their respective kinesics, their ‘body languages,’ will also now be very different. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
As more people on the blog claim Travis attacked them, Kathryn applies her kinesics expertise to separate the lies from the truth in hopes of catching Travis before he kills again; he knows if he is caught he has no prayer as the evidence is extraordinarily overwhelming. From Wordnik.com. [Roadside Crosses-Jeffrey Deaver « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews] Reference
Recent textbooks in introductory linguistics are starting to include full chapters on kinesics. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1] Reference
I do not wish to imply that linguists do not recognize kinesics as a legitimate field of scholarly inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1] Reference
That particular methodology called generative-transformational did not include paralanguage, kinesics, or cultural influences. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1] Reference
Prof. Kalasannavar took the students through an exciting round of debates and explained to them the relevance of body kinesics. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
On the Internet criminals only send words via email or messages and as such none of the warning signals we get from body language, general appearance, kinesics and haptics are present to trigger that queasy feeling in our stomachs. From Wordnik.com. [TechNet Blogs] Reference
McCoy knew enough of this particular nonhominid species’ kinesics to recognize a despairing shrug when he saw one. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
Names and faces, the workings of the Senate—t’Hrienteh’s family were highly placed—medical background on Romulan psychiatry and body kinesics. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
Either this agent had gone the way Starfleet Command suspected, spent so long in deep cover that she’d gone native and literally forgotten who and what she really was, or—or maybe there’d been some horrible mistake and he’d been brought to the wrong House, wishful thinking had misread her body kinesics, and she wasn’t an agent at all. From Wordnik.com. [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference
And run a facial and kinesics profile on him. From Wordnik.com. [Edge] Reference
Even as recently as last year, when I suggested a special session on kinesics to the organizing committee of the International Congress of Linguists, I was informed that this subject matter was "marginal" and that papers on non-verbal behavior would be scheduled in the section on Semiotics, as if the spoken language were not as much a semiotic system as the non-verbal forms of communication and as if the latter were not more closely linked to verbal language than animal communication. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1] Reference
Research in kinesics is not easy. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3] Reference
Now kinesics is definitely in again. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3] Reference
Do our kinesics change in a way she picks up?. From Wordnik.com. [Armed and Dangerous] Reference
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