“…Research into non-verbal behavior is both scarce and highly sought after among scholars in the field because of its significance for the communication and reception of discourse (Grabe & Bucy, 2009;Dumitresco, 2016). The subject has been addressed from the perspectives of philology and linguistics (Bañón Hernández, 2005;Hernández Guerrero, 2009;Fuentes Rodríguez, 2010;De La Mota & Puigvert, 2012;Cestero Mancera, 2016, 2018a, 2018bGarcía Ferrer, 2020), communication (Rodríguez Escancio & Hernández Herrate, 2010Saha et al, 2016;Seiter & Weger, 2020;Fernández-Hoya & Cáceres Zapatero, 2022), psychology (Argentin, Ghiglione & Dorna, 1990;Stockemer & Praino, 2015) and sociology (Gimate Welsh & Sankey García, 2005), which underscores the close ties between politics, communication and persuasion.…”