Communicative potential of the means of non-verbal communication

Abstract

This article provides a theoretical review of the communicative meaning of nonverbal means, analyzes examples from the texts of fiction. All kinds of nonverbal means (prosodics, kinesics, graphemics, takisics, proxemics, okulesics, sensorics) are found in Kazakh prose texts as an auxiliary means of language, and as a means of hidden expression of meaning, as well as to supplement the content of words or phrases missing in the syntactic construction of the sentence. The authors define the purpose of application of nonverbal means in the process of communication, it is established that nonverbal means applied in the course of a communicative act are subordinated to a specific purpose. In the texts of fiction both nonverbal and synonymous, polysemantic means and techniques expressing certain semantics coexist. On the analysis of concrete language examples their semantics, which is determined depending on the context or situation, is shown. It is proved that non-verbal means are most actively used in expressing internal feelings, psychological state of the characters.