Kinesics and Context Essays on Communication Through Body Movement by Ray L. Birdwhistell. 0 Want to read, read, read Share. Kinesics and Context: Essays on Body Movement, University of Pennsylvania Press in English. He coined the term kinesics, the part of nonverbal communication that deals with body postures and movements of various body parts that play a role in communication. In E. Goffman, D. Hymes, G. Samkoff, and H. Glassie Eds. Kinesics and context: Essays on communication through bodily movement. Philadelphia: University of. Ray L. Birdwhistell, in this study of the movement of the human body, a study he calls kinesics advances the theory that human communication needs and uses all the senses, that the information conveyed by human gestures and movements is coded and structured differently in various cultures, and that these codes can be discovered through kinesics or the systemic study of bodily behavioral communication, a relatively new subsection in the study of language. More specifically, kinesics describes the importance of bodily behavior in social communication. It is the study of communication through “silent” language. Facial expressions, postures, hand movements,