A Forgotten Work on Body Language Studies: "An Experimental Analysis of Facial Expressions"
Abstract
Communication is carried out in two ways as verbal and non-verbal. While oral communication is the language of expression, the means of expression in nonverbal communication are the head, face, various parts of the body, or the body itself as a whole. Body language, which is the most basic element of non-verbal communication, is a form of communication that consists of gestures, mimics, and body movements. Body language, which attracted attention as “a new field” in world literature in the mid-1960s, was indeed a field of study that came to the fore in the 1930s in Turkey. Mumtaz Turhan, a faculty member in the department of Experimental Psychology at Istanbul University, in his work entitled "An Experimental Analysis of Facial Expressions" which he presented as his associate professorship thesis, performed an experimental study on mimics which form a sub level of body language. In 1941 he published his work as a book. Turhan, having conducted a series of experiments, proved that it would not be possible to interpret mimics accurately in isolation, that a mimic could mean something only in a particular context, and that they could be correctly interpreted only in those contexts. With that study, Turhan became one of the first scholars who studied body language not only in our country, but also in the world science literature. However, a glance at the studies made in our country would show that Turhan's work seems to have been ignored and forgotten. Starting at this problem, this study aims to introduce Mümtaz Turhan's work "An Experimental Analysis of Facial Expressions" and show its significance in body language studies.
A Forgotten Work on Body Language Studies: "An Experimental Analysis of Facial Expressions"
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Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
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Journal Section
Book Review
Authors
Ozan İpek
Uludağ Üniversitesi, Türkçe Eğitimi Bölümü
Türkiye
Publication Date
July 28, 2017
Submission Date
July 27, 2017
Acceptance Date
July 3, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2017 Volume: 5 Number: 3
