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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826496703321

Autore

Poyatos Fernando

Titolo

Nonverbal communication across disciplines / / Fernando Poyatos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, Pa., : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002

ISBN

9786612254956

90-272-9712-6

1-282-25495-2

0-585-46241-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

3 v

Disciplina

302.2/22

Soggetti

Nonverbal communication

Communication and culture

Oral communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

v. 1. Culture, sensory interaction, speech, conversation -- v. 2. Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction -- v. 3. Narrative literature, theater, cinema, translation.

Sommario/riassunto

In a progressive and systematic approach to communication, and always through an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, this first volume presents culture as an intricate grid of sensible and intelligible sign systems in space and time, identifying the semiotic and interactive problems inherent in intercultural and subcultural communication according to verbal-nonverbal cultural fluency. The author lays out fascinating complexity of our direct and synesthesial sensory perception of people and artifactual and environmental elements; and its audible and visual manifestations through our 'speaking face', to then acknowledge the triple reality of discourse as 'verbal language-paralanguage-kinesics', which is applied through two realistic models: (a)for a verbal-nonverbal comprehensive transcription of interactive speech, and (b)for the implementation of nonverbal communication in foreign-language teaching. The author presents his exhaustive model of 'nonverbal categories' for a detailed analysis of normal or pathological behaviors in any interactive or noninteractive



manifestation; and, based on all the previous material, his equally exhaustive structural model for the study of conversational encounters, which suggests many applications in different fields, such as the intercultural and multisystem communication situation developed in simultaneous or consecutive interpretating. 956 literary quotations from 103 authors and 194 works illustrate all the points discussed.