Semiotics Of Mimics And Body Movements In Assessing A Person’s Emotional State

Abstract

The study explores the semiotics of facial expressions and body movements as key components in evaluating a person’s emotional state. Emphasizing the communicative function of the body, the research examines how mimics, gestures, posture, gaze behavior, and other nonverbal cues serve as significant markers of internal psychological processes. Through the lens of nonverbal semiotics—including kinesics, proxemics, and prosodic features—the paper analyzes how emotional information is encoded, transmitted, and interpreted across different communicative contexts. The present study aims to create a linguistic portrait of human non-verbal behavior (facial expressions, gestures, body movements, postures, gait, timbre and intonation of speech, as well as spatial characteristics of communication).