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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786702303321

Titolo

Nonverbal communication, interaction, and gesture [[electronic resource] ] : selections from Semiotica / / general editors Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok ; volume editor Adam Kendon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The Hague ; ; New York, : Mouton Publishers, c1981

ISBN

3-11-088002-4

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (560 p.)

Collana

Approaches to semiotics ; ; 41

Altri autori (Persone)

SebeokThomas A <1920-2001.> (Thomas Albert)

Umiker-SebeokDonna Jean

KendonAdam

Disciplina

001.56

Soggetti

Nonverbal communication

Gesture

Interpersonal communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: Current Issues in the Study of "Nonverbal Communication" / KENDON, ADAM -- Part One: Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- The Repertoire of Nonverbal Behavior: Categories, Origins, Usage, and Coding / EKMAN, PAUL / FRIESEN, WALLACE V. -- Forms and Functions of Nonverbal Communication in the Novel: A New Perspective of the Author-Character-Reader Relationship / POYATOS, FERNANDO -- Toward a Mathematization of Kinetic Behavior: A Review of Paul Bouissac's La Mesure des Gestes / FREEDMAN, NORBERT -- Maximizing Replicability in Describing Facial Behavior / SEAFORD, HENRY W. -- Part Two: Organization of Behavior in Social Encounters -- Patterns of Public Behaviour: Collision Avoidance on a Pedestrian Crossing / COLLETT, PETER / MARSH, PETER -- Greeting a Stranger: Some Commonly Used Nonverbal Signals of Aversiveness / YENS, DAVID Gl -- Handwork as Ceremony: The Case of the Handshake / SCHIFFRIN, DEBORAH -- Kinesic Signals at Utterance Boundaries in Preschool Children / LONG, ALTON J. DE -- The Different Functions of Gaze / ARGYLE, MICHAEL / INGHAM, ROGER / ALKEMA, FLORISSE / McCALLIN, MARGARET --



Sequential Temporal Patterns of Speech and Gaze in Dialogue / BEATTIE, GEOFFREY W. -- Some Functions of the Face in a Kissing Round / KENDON, ADAM -- The Case of the Apple Turnover: An Experiment in Multichannel Communication Analysis / ROSENBERG, MARC -- Part Three: Gesture -- Gesture Inventories : Fieldwork Methodology and Problems / POYATOS, FERNANDO -- Communicative Body Movements : American Emblems / JOHNSON, HAROLD G. / EKMAN, PAUL / FRIESEN, WALLACE V. -- Contrastive-Identification Feature of Persian Gesture / SPARHAWK, CAROL M. -- Physical versus Semantic Classification of Nonverbal Forms: A Cross-Cultural Experiment / KIRK, LORRAINE / BURTON, MICHAEL -- Facial Emblems of "Right" and "Wrong": Topographical Analysis and Derivation of a Recognition Test / ROSENFELD, HOWARD M. / SHEA, MARILYN / GREENBAUM, PAUL -- Tongue Showing: A Facil Display of Humans and Other Primate Species / SMITH, W. JOHN / CHASE, JULIA / LIEBLICH, ANNA KATZ -- Sources

Sommario/riassunto

The present volume is an excellent introduction to the study of human nonverbal communication, including interaction and gesture, for students and specialists in other disciplines, as well as a convenient compilation of significant contributions to the field for experts.  Part 1 includes four articles, the import of which is primarily theoretical or methodological. Part II comprises eight articles in which instances of interaction are examined and attempts are made to explain how the behavior that can be observed in them functions in the interaction process. Part III presents six articles on w