Kineme vs. Kinesics

Kinemenoun

(linguistics) In kinesics, a group of movements with an associated meaning, analogous to a phoneme in spoken language.

Kinesicsnoun

Non-verbal communication by means of gestures, and/or other body movement.

Kinesics

Kinesics is the interpretation of body motion communication such as facial expressions and gestures, nonverbal behavior related to movement of any part of the body or the body as a whole. The equivalent popular culture term is body language, a term Ray Birdwhistell, considered the founder of this area of study, neither used nor liked (on the grounds that what can be conveyed with the body does not meet the linguist's definition of language).