Body Language in The Arabic Heritage

Abstract

The researcher tries to uncover that Arabic heritage, especially

philosophers and some linguists and critics, interestingly studied a field

which was thought not to be dealt with in Arabic heritage, that is, the field

of ultra- segmental semantics. The researcher states that the Arabic critical

and philosophical vision was so close to deal in details with the phenomena

of non- verbal communication affecting the significance of an important

impact on the meaning, which is known as the Body Language, such as

the movements of the hand and head, facial expressions, staggering and

overstretching the words, movements of the eyes, and raising and reducing

the tone of voice.

It necessary to write about the definition and the importance of Ultra-

Segmental Semantics in the modern Linguistics, so that it may provide a

reasonable image of what the Arabic heritage achieved in this field. Arabic

heritage both critical and philosophical focused on the coherence of these

markers with the ideas, content, psychology of the speaker, expressive

potentials in evolving emotions of the recipients, empowerment of meanings,

ethics created in them, self- image of the speaker, and the embodiment of

credibility of these elements. These factors influence the impact of poetry on

the recipients, and the listener’s acceptance of the discourse.