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Many works have been published concerning nonverbal communication, but most of them present psychological, anthropological and sociological approach. We still have not many linguistic studies in this area in Poland. The article presents validity and implications of linguistic research - both for linguistics and nonverbal behaviour studies.
The article discusses the communicative meaning of liturgical gestures during the Roman Catholic Mass. The gestures are considered and analyzed from two perspectives: the former is connected with theology and the latter with the non-verbal communication. The meaning and usage of the gestures are then interpreted by applying Goffman's dramaturgical theory of social life.
The paper presents a comparative study between expressions of the general language and specialist terms with a similar scope. All the analysed expressions of the general language, i.e. mostly units and constructions with the morphemes -ruch-, -gest-, pokaz-, and -mig-, describe in contemporary Polish motional actions of humans. As shown by contradiction tests, some of them are in addition limited...
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