Body Language

[Thomas Paikeday]

Many thanks for all the tips received about the latest on BL. The
amazon.com site was especially charming with titles such as A LANGUAGE
OLDER THAN WORDS by Derrick Jensen (2000). But I have decided to let the
literature be and do some thinking of my own first. At least, I won't be
accused of softcore plagiarism (that's passing off paid-for stuff, as in
some student essays, hardcore being passing off stolen stuff. As in a
recent paper of YT - sorry to go so off-topic).

I am drawing up a scheme or model based on the human anatomy and getting
a naive-informant group to help by running an ad in THE NIAGARA SHOPPING
NEWS (a very unacademic paper as you can see).

A scholarly question if I may and there's no leg-pulling here, just
plain ignorance of elementary grammar: Is the part-of-speech called
interj. verbal or nonverbal? (Please see RHD def. of BL). I appreciate
it is vocal, as in "Ah-choo!" Is that kinesics or proxemics, especially
when the subject sneezes close to the object?

But I will read Edward T. Hall just as I have read Julius Fast's
pioneering work. As if anyone cared!

Seriously,

THOMAS M. PAIKEDAY
(_The Native Speaker Is Dead!_, Toronto & New York, 1985; Tokyo
(Maruzen), 1990).