On the first day of class, you find yourself focusing more on Dr. Kostaneki's nonverbal behaviors than on the lecture content

He has an annoying habit of scratching his head behind
his left ear and squiggling his eyebrows when he is thinking. Scholars, instead of being
annoyed, would classify Dr. Kostaneki's nonverbal gestures as
A) emblems.
B) illustrators.
C) regulators.
D) adaptors.
E) none of the above


D

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True False

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