Ph.D. Dissertation:

the impact of corporate social performance on the cost of debt and access to debt financing

Any communication arises from both verbal and nonverbal. Verbal emancipation is what we say. behavior.Nonverbal behaviors in communications means the art of using body movements, facial expressions, voice, silence, etc., in making communications with the audience. In this thesis, the researchers has tried to investigate and analyze three novels including peepal tree/ashwattha tree by Ahmad Mahmoud (2000), secrets of my land by Reza Barahani (1935) and a shoulder to cry on by Sadegh Chubak (1966) in terms of nonverbal behaviors perspective, indicating how writers have used such kind of behaviors to make more communication with and Influence their audiences. Also, nonverbal behaviors including movements of foot and hand, changing limbs, changing facial expressions, Head movements, Vibration of body and voice, silence and so one were decoded in such a way that how a behavior can transfer different meanings in each specific condition. The findings of present study reveal that the writers have used nonverbal behaviors along with verbal ones to make more influences on their audiences.

Keywords: Nonverbal behaviors, the novel peepal tree/ashwattha tree, the novel secrets of my land and the nove