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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457360703321

Autore

Birdwhistell Ray L.

Titolo

Kinesics and Context : Essays on Body Motion Communication / / Ray L. Birdwhistell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pa. : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]

©1971

ISBN

1-283-21145-9

9786613211453

0-8122-0128-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

Conduct and Communication

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Body language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. [305]-338.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Editor's Note -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. Learning to Be a Human Body -- PART II. Isolating Behavior -- PART III. Approaching Behavior -- PART IV. Collecting Data: Observing, Filming, and Interviewing -- PART V. Research on An Interview -- Appendixes

Sommario/riassunto

Ray L. Birdwhistell, in this study of human body motion (a study he terms kinesics), advances the theory that human communication needs and uses all the senses, that the information conveyed by human gestures and movements is coded and patterned differently in various cultures, and that these codes can be discovered by skilled scrutiny of particular movements within a social context.