لغة الجسد في التراث العربي

Abstract EN

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.