ABSTRACT
As the lack of words in a wordless narration brings out the expressive role of movement, the aim of this article is to discuss how kinesics serves as a form of nonverbal communication. Body movements, gestures, postures, gaze movements, and facial expressions form a pictorial vocabulary and articulate a communicative continuum. We will discuss how readers decode images and develop meaning that follows sequentially in the narrative structure of comics, and how these inferences are constructed to enhance the personality of the characters. The interpretive nature of wordless books invites the readers across all age groups to forego their traditional manner of reading a book and approach the reading act from the perspective of visual signs.
