Demonstrative communication is an important means of transferring information from one person to another or to a group through a medium that provides context, tone, and symbolism with brevity and conciseness. People are empathetic creatures who communicate through many nonverbal means. Symbols, expressions, vocal intonations and gestures communicate information about the sender's feelings and opinions at a level that “fills in the gaps” of mere linguistic transmission. These "gaps" in information are often layered dimensions of information about the sender's feelings and opinions that would be too pedantic and time-consuming to relay to a recipient with a limited attention span. Below we describe how body language, vocal intonation, expressions influence the sender's ability to communicate effectively and the recipient's ability to be inspired and influenced by rhetoric using an economy of linguistic information. Body language is a powerful tool at a skilled speaker's disposal. Adolf Hitler, one of the most accomplished public speakers of the 20th century, had his rehearsed speech gestures photographed so he could study them and improve their effectiveness (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2011). Hitler drew inspiration from the works of Richard Wagner when architecting his political strategy. Opera is a form of theater: an art form that uses a synergy of linguistic information, visual composition, symbolism, drama, and music to move its audience. Hitler was well aware of the theatricality of politics, and he was astute in exploiting that dimension of his strategy so that he could move his people enough to ignore or justify the atrocities of National Socialism. Gestures allow the speaker to...... middle of paper ...... with an overly stern expression, the receiver can be put into a state of discomfort with the sender's perceived intentions. Non-verbal communication is extremely important because communication occurs on multiple dimensions: the linguistic dimension, the symbolic dimension and the emotional dimension. The truly correlated message between sender and recipient, beyond simple linguistic information, is coordinated in the spaces between which these dimensions relate in the mind of both the sender and the recipient. References Fast, J. (1970). Body language. New York: M. Evans; distributed in association with Lippincott.Manusov, V.L., & Patterson, M.L. (2006). The SAGE handbook of nonverbal communication. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (2011) Retrieved from http://www.ushmm.org