Body language Body language Body language is a type of nonverbal communication in which physical behaviors, as opposed to words, are used to express or convey information. Such behavior includes facial expressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space. Body language exists in both animals and humans, but this article focuses on interpretations of human body language. It is also known as kinesics. Body language must not be confused with sign language, as sign languages are full languages like spoken languages and have their own complex grammar systems, as well as being able to exhibit the fundamental properties
Greek language question been wholly committed to what A. R. Rangavis in 1853 had called "the dignified formation of the Panhellenic language", even if there was some disagreement over how archaic it should be. But these new criticisms did not come from Ionian provincials or demotic poets; they were coming from leading "katharevousa" prose writers working in the Athenian establishment itself. "Katharevousa" was also about to receive more criticism, of a quite different kind, from an even more establishment quarter. In 1882 the classical philologist Konstantinos Kontos, a professor at the University of Athens, published "Linguistic Observations Regarding Modern Greek", a collection of