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According to the passage, considering Birdwhistell’s observations, some scholars ----.
Not only the eyes and face but also the head, hands,
legs and feet communicate information. Ray Birdwhistell
has embarked on an ambitious attempt to construct an
entire linguistics of body communication, called
‘kinesics’. From extensive observation mainly in the
United States, he identified sixty to seventy basic units
of body movement and described rules of combination
that produce meaningful units of body communication.
While some scholars feel that this may be somewhat
ambiguous, there is a general agreement on some other
issues. For example, emblems which can be defined as
gestures that replace or stand in for spoken language
are widely understood across cultures, but many are
culture-specific as put forward by almost all of the
scholars. Therefore, the same thing can be indicated by
different gestures in different cultures, or, the same
gestures can mean different things in different cultures.
For instance, most people refer to ‘self’ by pointing at
their chest, while in Japan they put a finger to the nose.