Features of non-verbal communication models of the Kazakh people

Abstract

The article examines the components of the non-verbal communication model of the Kazakh people. The author established a non-verbal model of the Kazakh language, the main feature of which is the presence of a lacunized component that contains etiquette norms of behavior, taboo gestures, and gestures-realities that take place only in the Kazakh language culture. Based on the analysis of non-verbal means of Russian and Kazakh languages included in dictionaries of non-verbal means, it is revealed that there is no «international» sign language, it is always national as verbal speech. The article describes a number of non-verbal components that are inherent only in the Kazakh language, which do not exist in Russian at all. The results of the analysis of non-verbal means showed that there are no alternative replacements for taboo gestures.