Nonverbal Communication as a Subject in Classic and Modern Philology

The current interdisciplinary development of Nonverbal Communication Studies justifies the curricular implementation of a course which would realistically enrich the linguistic, literary, artistic and socio-cultural perspectives in the teaching of Modern or Classical Philology. Each of its branches studies, the history of its language and its phonetic and morphological development and different speech areas, but without considering the possible changes and geographical distribution of its paralinguistic and kinesic repertoires, amply described or implicit in its literature or literatures. They also study the civilization, the culture and the arts covered by each language, yet without benefiting from its rich sources of nonverbal communication, especially in the Baroque, Realistic and Naturalistic periods and contemporary Social Realism, with visual representations of postures, gestures and manners described in the literary texts of each period. But the literary realm in Modern Philology is also enriched by the photographic social realism of each culture. Adapted from the source document