STIMULІ AND PROVOCATIОNS ОF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

The object of the article is semiotics of nonverbal means of communication., The purpose of the article is to describe the semantics of nonverbal means of communication to improve people’s understanding in the conditions of the time deficit and social and national barriers of communication. The subject comprises the kinds of nonverbal signs used in communication. This research required the empirical qualitative interpretation, introspective and intentional analyses of the social and psychological situations of solving the communication problems with nonverbal means leading to their classification based on the social stereotypes such as gender, age, social groups, etc. and devising the method of interpreting and reacting to them. The material covers observation in vivo and the information from the scientific literature. Nonverbal means of communication are divided into optic-kinetic, gestures, mimic and pantomimic. The intentional function of the nonverbal means comprises cognitive, emotional and social (conventional) information. Semiotic communication performs various functions in life: security, warning, calling, agreeing or refusing, relaxing or straining, pleasing or displeasing, attracting or repulsing, etc. when communicating it is necessary to read the whole system of signals rendered by a person and adequately react to them. The research opens the problems of the correct decoding nonverbal signs, their choice in communication, ways if transferring them into verbal speech, etc.