From Gestures to Grammar: A Linguistic Anthropologist's Guide to Understanding Non-Verbal Communication
In our hyper-connected digital age, we often fixate on the words we use, yet the most profound layers of human connection are woven in silence. As a linguistic anthropologist, I've spent over a decade studying how societies build meaning not just with speech, but through the intricate, often unconscious, symphony of the body. This article is a deep dive into the grammar of non-verbal communication—the rules, structures, and cultural dialects of gestures, posture, eye contact, and touch. We'll mo