Identify the technical term used to describe body language from the following:

Kinesics is the technical term for body language, the study of meaning carried by gestures, posture, facial expressions and eye movement.

It reads the body itself as a signalling system, where a nod, a frown or a stance communicates alongside or instead of words.

Proxemics is the use of personal and physical space to signal intimacy, dominance or distance, not body movement as such.

Chronemics concerns how time is used and perceived in communication, such as punctuality and pace, a separate nonverbal code.

Haptics deals specifically with touch and what contact communicates, only one narrow strand rather than body language as a whole.

Ray Birdwhistell coined kinesics, treating bodily motion as a structured language of its own.