This dissertation aimed at exploring the field of nonverbal communication (NVC), highlighting and... more This dissertation aimed at exploring the field of nonverbal communication (NVC), highlighting and identifying some of the main contributions to the scientific research in the field. Furthermore, the concluding chapter was devoted to the application of the research on NVC to the sphere of politics, in order to underline its connections to the perception of leadership. The way theories and facts are presented is meant to be chronological, although the aim of this work is to merge together different approaches to the subject, with the linguistics approach serving as overarching framework. The second chapter is entirely focused on one of the most common applications of the theoretical studies on NVC: politics. Since the positive implications of a powerful non-verbal communicative behaviour have been foregrounded, many experts identified its potential when applied to fields where persuasion plays a crucial role, such as teaching, marketing, sales, negotiation and political campaigns. I chose this topic after I developed a strong interest in the verbal counterpart of communication, which was one of the core courses in the final year of my undergraduate studies. My aim was to delve into the different aspects of communicative behaviour displays and to develop a broader picture of the recent studies on human communication.
The debate about why art is to be taught at school and the role of the art educator is still open... more The debate about why art is to be taught at school and the role of the art educator is still open and quite vivid. Art is also difficult to evaluate, since it is connected with so many intangible aspects of the human mind: first and foremost, creativity (Winner, Goldstein, & Vincent-Lacrin, 2013). Do we teach art to develop creativity or does creativity leads to the comprehension of art? Should art be taught as a subject per se or as a tool to promote 21st century skills? What are the goals of an art teacher nowadays? In this paper, I will try to analyze the possible answers to these questions in the light of the perspective provided by the art teacher whom I could interview during our visit at ArtEZ School of Art. “I didn’t know I could” will be the guiding concept into this study: I will try to extrapolate the implied meaning of this sentence and to understand its entailments.
This dissertation aimed at exploring the field of nonverbal communication (NVC), highlighting and... more This dissertation aimed at exploring the field of nonverbal communication (NVC), highlighting and identifying some of the main contributions to the scientific research in the field. Furthermore, the concluding chapter was devoted to the application of the research on NVC to the sphere of politics, in order to underline its connections to the perception of leadership. The way theories and facts are presented is meant to be chronological, although the aim of this work is to merge together different approaches to the subject, with the linguistics approach serving as overarching framework. The second chapter is entirely focused on one of the most common applications of the theoretical studies on NVC: politics. Since the positive implications of a powerful non-verbal communicative behaviour have been foregrounded, many experts identified its potential when applied to fields where persuasion plays a crucial role, such as teaching, marketing, sales, negotiation and political campaigns. I chose this topic after I developed a strong interest in the verbal counterpart of communication, which was one of the core courses in the final year of my undergraduate studies. My aim was to delve into the different aspects of communicative behaviour displays and to develop a broader picture of the recent studies on human communication.
The debate about why art is to be taught at school and the role of the art educator is still open... more The debate about why art is to be taught at school and the role of the art educator is still open and quite vivid. Art is also difficult to evaluate, since it is connected with so many intangible aspects of the human mind: first and foremost, creativity (Winner, Goldstein, & Vincent-Lacrin, 2013). Do we teach art to develop creativity or does creativity leads to the comprehension of art? Should art be taught as a subject per se or as a tool to promote 21st century skills? What are the goals of an art teacher nowadays? In this paper, I will try to analyze the possible answers to these questions in the light of the perspective provided by the art teacher whom I could interview during our visit at ArtEZ School of Art. “I didn’t know I could” will be the guiding concept into this study: I will try to extrapolate the implied meaning of this sentence and to understand its entailments.
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The way theories and facts are presented is meant to be chronological, although the aim of this work is to merge together different approaches to the subject, with the linguistics approach serving as overarching framework.
The second chapter is entirely focused on one of the most common applications of the theoretical studies on NVC: politics.
Since the positive implications of a powerful non-verbal communicative behaviour have been foregrounded, many experts identified its potential when applied to fields where persuasion plays a crucial role, such as teaching, marketing, sales, negotiation and political campaigns.
I chose this topic after I developed a strong interest in the verbal counterpart of communication, which was one of the core courses in the final year of my undergraduate studies. My aim was to delve into the different aspects of communicative behaviour displays and to develop a broader picture of the recent studies on human communication.
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In this paper, I will try to analyze the possible answers to these questions in the light of the perspective provided by the art teacher whom I could interview during our visit at ArtEZ School of Art.
“I didn’t know I could” will be the guiding concept into this study: I will try to extrapolate the implied meaning of this sentence and to understand its entailments.
The way theories and facts are presented is meant to be chronological, although the aim of this work is to merge together different approaches to the subject, with the linguistics approach serving as overarching framework.
The second chapter is entirely focused on one of the most common applications of the theoretical studies on NVC: politics.
Since the positive implications of a powerful non-verbal communicative behaviour have been foregrounded, many experts identified its potential when applied to fields where persuasion plays a crucial role, such as teaching, marketing, sales, negotiation and political campaigns.
I chose this topic after I developed a strong interest in the verbal counterpart of communication, which was one of the core courses in the final year of my undergraduate studies. My aim was to delve into the different aspects of communicative behaviour displays and to develop a broader picture of the recent studies on human communication.
In this paper, I will try to analyze the possible answers to these questions in the light of the perspective provided by the art teacher whom I could interview during our visit at ArtEZ School of Art.
“I didn’t know I could” will be the guiding concept into this study: I will try to extrapolate the implied meaning of this sentence and to understand its entailments.