ABSTRACT
Anticipation and prejudice refer to the role of preconceptions in all people' activities and to the continual process of perceptual modification through feedback. E.H. Gombrich pointed to examples such as the accompanying cartoon as graphic illustrations of how easily and confidently the perceptual temptation is entertained by both the senders and the receivers of nonverbal communication. The uses of gesture, distance, verbal and nonverbal images all construct the semiotic web. Edward Hall has described how patients communicate meaning through organizing space and manipulating distance. Hall found that North Americans attribute social meaning to four types of perceived distance, which he labelled public distance, social distance, personal distance, and intimate distance. Time, like distance, contains its own differently coded meanings and values. Coded meanings and concepts that make up any given culture at a given time provide it with a repertory of values. Gestures form an important system of coded meaning.
