Facial expression

When the facial expressions ( the " face " or the " facial expressions " ) are referred to the visible movements of the facial surface. In most cases, results in a total impression of individual facial facets, since the individual movements of the facial muscles occur in a split second. The facial expressions can be composed with other behaviors and actions, such as gestures, an important part of non-verbal communication.

The facial expression is mainly due to the contraction of facial muscles and is produced especially by the eyes and mouth as the most mobile parts of the face.

Qualification

Facial expressions has the following areas of particular importance:

Mimetic communication and interaction is socially significant because it suggests the more conspicuous and better documentable language.

Examples from the European culture

In European cultures as means

Word environment

Occasionally the word mimic is used synonymously to play theater. Thus, the verb mime and mime the noun used as a synonym for actor or slang for a theatrically over- representation. Example: " He pretends to be sick " ( in the sense that he does so as if he was sick ).

Facial expressions in some clubs a highlight of the year festivities, are caricatured in the events for the members of the club life and exaggerated pantomime.

Film and theater

Key considerations for facial expressions go back to Béla Balázs, the first film theorists of the Weimar Republic and its epochal work The Visible Man ( 1924).