Communication Is Linguistic Communication

- 1 Body language

- 2 A pictue is worth a thousand words

- 1 He gave me a look that spoke volumes.

- 2 What does that painting say to you?

- 3 A glance in the box told me all I needed to know.

- 5 Her eyes said yes.

- 6 His face related to me a story of hard times.

- 7 His clothes were loud; they shouted his bad taste to the world.

- 8 He made an eloquent gesture.

- 9 His poetry was possessed of its own special voice.

Source Domain
speech

Target Domain
communication

- 1 His guilt was written all over his face.

- 2 I read more into his actions than actually was there.

- 3 I finally managed to decode/interpret his actions.

- 4 Do I have to spell it out for you?

- 5 I can read him like a book.

- 6 When he said "God," he said it with a capital G.

- 7 His gestures underlined what he was saying.

- 8 She always spoke in italics.

Source Domain
writing

Target Domain
communication

Jane Espenson

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