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This volume on non-verbal communication studies offers numerous suggestions for further research in many hitherto unexplored areas. The 20 contributions include theoretical and empirical cross-cultural studies of gestures from historical, communicative and sociopsychological perspectives. In addition the volume presents novel psychological and clinical studies of non-verbal behaviours in connection with, for instance, aphasias and children's experience of artificial limbs. A whole section is devoted to non-verbal communication in literature and literary translation, and a discussion of art and literature, which opens new avenues for literary analysis and a better understanding of reading as a recreational experience. A special feature is a discussion of non-verbal communication studies as an academic area (including detailed outlines of three current courses), complemented by an extensive bibliography.

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Author:   Fernando Poyatos (University of New Brunswick)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Weight:   0.935kg
ISBN:  

9789027220851

ISBN 10:   9027220859
Pages:   412
Publication Date:   10 December 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. List of Contributors; 4. Introduction (by Poyatos, Fernando); 5. Part I. Theoretical research perspectives in nonverbal communication studies; 6. The Interaction of Visual and Verbal Features in Human Communication (by Streeck, Jurgen); 7. Auditory Communication: Non-Verbal, Pre-Verbal, and Co-Verbal (by Wescott, Roger W.); 8. The Audible-Visual Approach to Speech as Basic to Nonverbal Communication Research (by Poyatos, Fernando); 9. Prolegomenon to the Elaboration of a New Discipline: Ethnogestics (by Koechlin, Bernard); 10. The Rational of Gestures in the West: A History form the 3rd to the 13th Centuries (by Schmitt, Jean-Claude); 11. Part II. Social and clinical aspects of nonverbal interaction; 12. Does Nonverbal Communication Cause Happiness? (by Argyle, Michael); 13. The Dissociation between Motor and Symbolic Movements in coverbal Behavior (by Hadar, Uri); 14. The Relevance of Logical Formalisms for Nonverbal Clinical Observations (by Lowenthal, Francis); 15. Children's Artificial Limbs: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Implications (by McDonnel, Paul); 16. Part III. Cultural and Crosscultural Perspectives on Gestures; 17. Six Characters in Search of a Gesture: Chinese Graphs and Corporal Behavior (by Shun-chiu, Yau); 18. Facial and Manual Components of Italian Symbolic Gestures (by Ricci Bitti, Pio Enrico); 19. The Veiled Face and Expressiveness Among the Tuaregs (by Hawad-Claudot, Helene); 20. Many Gestures, Many Meanings: Nonverbal Diversity in Israel (by Schneller, Raphael); 21. Part IV. Nonverbal Communication in Literature: Advancements in Literary Anthropology; 22. Nonverbal Communication in the Classics: Research Opportunities (by Holoka, James P.); 23. Affect Displays in the Epic Poetry of Homer, Vergil, and Ovid (by Lateiner, Donald); 24. Nonverbal Expressiveness in Late Greek Epic: Quintus of Smyrna, and Nonnus (by Newbold, Ronald); 25. Describing Nonverbal Behavior in the Odyssey: Scenes and Verbal Frames as Translation Problems (by Vermeer, Hans J.); 26. Paralanguage and Quasiparalinguistic Sounds as a Concern of Literary Analysis (by Poyatos, Fernando); 27. Part V. Art and Literature: The Visual Recreation; 28. Visual Meaning in Greek Drama: Sophocles' Ajax and the Art of Dying (by Golder, Herbert); 29. Part VI. Nonverbal Communication in Literature: Advancements in Literature: Advancements in Literary Anthropology; 30. The Interdisciplinary Teaching of Nonverbal Communication: Academic and Social Implications (by Poyatos, Fernando); 31. Name Index; 32. Subject Index

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