Humanities & Social Sciences 3 (2017 10) 325-329 ~ ~ ~ УДК 81’23 Kinesic Components of Terrorist Nonverbal Behavior Andrei G. Fomin and Elizaveta A. Mona* Kemerovo State University 6 Krasnaia Str., Kemerovo, 650043 Russia Received 14.09.2016, received in revised form 26.09.2016, accepted 10.01.2017 There is no general understanding of correlation between verbal and nonverbal components in communication process at the current stage of both domestic and foreign linguistics development. <...> However, most of the researchers believe that nonverbal organization of an individual’s speech plays a significant role in presenting the informative content of an utterance. <...> One of the key elements of nonverbal communication is kinesics, elements of which form a visual semiotic system. <...> In this regard, the aim of this study is to examine kinesic components of terrorist nonverbal behavior – on the material of 8 Islamic State militants’ video messages, selected by continuous sampling, we attempt to analyze the peculiarities of facial gesture, gesticulation, pantomimicry and eye contact established by the speaker. <...> The results of the research show that despite the informative value of kinesic components of an individual’s nonverbal behavior, only the complex of nonverbal and verbal means, decoded simultaneously, is efficient enough to effectuate the speaker’s pragmatic intention. <...> Therefore, it is possible to conclude that nonverbal signs predetermine both the process of communication and its outcome, surpassing verbal signs in informative value. <...> Likewise, V.I. Shakhovskii supposes that nonverbal semiotic system is prior. <...> Kinesic Components of Terrorist Nonverbal Behavior communication, as well as in adequacy of its decoding by the recipient» (Shakhovskii, 2009: 33). <...> A.A. Reformatskii claims that verbal and nonverbal communicative systems do not overlay each other but rather co-exist in a complex correspondence, since their constituents can complement, replace or even contradict each other. <...> Hence, the majority of Russian and foreign scholars deem it advisable to perceive nonverbal communication as a competent information channel. <...> Theoretical framework In a broad sense, nonverbal communication in linguistics is understood as «communication without words through a variety of communication channels» (Ting-Toomey, 1999: 200). <...> Due to the possibility of using different channels of transferring information, nonverbal communication is usually understood as including the following <...>