Book Report on 'Body Language' by Allan Pease
Students: Vũ Ngọc Cường; Đỗ Dương Đức Minh; Nguyễn Khanh Hải Như.
Class: A1 – QTKD CLC
Book Review
Name of book: Body language – How to read others’ thoughts by their gestures
Author: Allan Pease
It is language that is the only tool that man can draw on to communicate with each other. Every country has its own national language. However, there is a universal language that even people who are deaf and/or speech-impaired can use. It is body language. Yet most people are still ignorant of the existence of body language although it is used by them very regularly and plays an important role in our life, on almost all aspects. “Body language” by Allan Pease is an interesting and useful book and gives readers a deeper understanding about this subject.
Content of the book
This book is a comprehensive guide to body language with the author, Allan Pease, explaining every detail with as much simplicity as possible. The many that you can learn from this book include palm gestures, hand and arm gestures, hand-to-face gestures, arm & leg barriers, eye signals, courtship gestures & signals, body lowering and much much more. He presents an easy read text based on a theoretical bibliography that methodically describes and evaluates a wide range of body postures and positions and the messages and emotions they may be conveying to the participants in everyday communication.
He suggests that body language is about understanding how people feel and think. He describes through examples how body language may present a very different message from the actual words being spoken. Not only does the book make us aware of others’ body language but it can also give us insights into our own nonverbal cues and signals. The book also examines aspects of non-verbal communication in a wide variety of everyday contexts. It discusses techniques that show us how to interpret gestures correctly and thus to 'read' the underlying thoughts or emotions. Besides, it includes many
Class: A1 – QTKD CLC
Book Review
Name of book: Body language – How to read others’ thoughts by their gestures
Author: Allan Pease
It is language that is the only tool that man can draw on to communicate with each other. Every country has its own national language. However, there is a universal language that even people who are deaf and/or speech-impaired can use. It is body language. Yet most people are still ignorant of the existence of body language although it is used by them very regularly and plays an important role in our life, on almost all aspects. “Body language” by Allan Pease is an interesting and useful book and gives readers a deeper understanding about this subject.
Content of the book
This book is a comprehensive guide to body language with the author, Allan Pease, explaining every detail with as much simplicity as possible. The many that you can learn from this book include palm gestures, hand and arm gestures, hand-to-face gestures, arm & leg barriers, eye signals, courtship gestures & signals, body lowering and much much more. He presents an easy read text based on a theoretical bibliography that methodically describes and evaluates a wide range of body postures and positions and the messages and emotions they may be conveying to the participants in everyday communication.
He suggests that body language is about understanding how people feel and think. He describes through examples how body language may present a very different message from the actual words being spoken. Not only does the book make us aware of others’ body language but it can also give us insights into our own nonverbal cues and signals. The book also examines aspects of non-verbal communication in a wide variety of everyday contexts. It discusses techniques that show us how to interpret gestures correctly and thus to 'read' the underlying thoughts or emotions. Besides, it includes many