Advances in nonverbal communication : sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives

ADVANCES IN NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction
	1. Multidisciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity
	2. The Contributions to this Volume
PART I. THEORETICAL RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION STUDIES
The Interaction of Visual and Verbal Features in Human Communication
	1. Introduction
	2. Interaction Formation
	3. Language
	4. Language in its Natural Habitat: Talk-in-Interaction
	5. Gestures
	6. Facial Action
	7. Analyzing Visual and Verbal Interrelationships: An Example
	8. Summary
	NOTE
	REFERENCES
Auditory Communication: Non-Verbal, Pre-Verbal, and Co-Verbal
	1. \'Eary\' Animals
	2.Non-Vocal Phonation
	3. Vocalization
	4. Primate Vocalization
	5. Human Vocal Ontogeny
	6. Defining Verbality
	7. Phasis
	8. Communicative Interdigitation
	9. Phonic Iconism
	10. Phoneme Alternations
	11. Phonemic Accretion and Deletion
	12. Non-Grammatical Apophony
	13. Glossolalia
	14. Exploring the Peripheries of Speech
	REFERENCES
The Audible-Visual Approach to Speech as Basic to Nonverbal Communication Research
	1. Introduction
	2. Breathing in Communication
	3. The Larynx
	4. The Pharynx
	5. The Oral Cavity
		5.1 The Teeth
		5.2 The Lips
		5.3 The Tongue
		5.4 The Mandible
		5.5 The Nose
	6. The Vowels and Visual Behaviors
	7. The Basic Triple Structure Language-Paralanguage-Kinesics
		7.1 The Basic Triple Structure in Reduced Interaction
	8. The Quasi-Paralinguistic and Language-Like Sounds of Our Bodies
		8.1 Self-adaptors and Alter-Adaptors: Our Touching and Being Touched
		8.2 The Sounds of Body-Adaptors
		8.3 The Sounds of Object-Adaptors: When Things Talk Back
		8.4 Object-Mediated Activities as Audible Body Extensions
	9. Conclusion
	REFERENCES
Prolegomenon to the Elaboration of a New Discipline: Ethnogestics
	1. Ecosystemic and Anthropological Approach to the Gestural Reality of Human Communities
	2. Richness and Complexity of the Gestural Material
	NOTES
	REFERENCES
The Rational of Gestures in the West: A History from the 3rd to the 13th Centuries
	1. Medieval Culture and the Scholarly Approach to Western Medieval Gesture
	2. The Body and the Soul in Medieval Gestures
	3. The Moral Theory and the Theory of Chivalric Courtesy
	4. Gestures in Space and Time
	5. History of the Medieval Interpretation of Gestures
	6. Efficient Gestures
	7. The Problem of Gestures After the Middle Ages
	8. Conclusion
	NOTES
	REFERENCES
PART II. SOCIAL AND CLINICAL ASPECTS OF NONVERBAL INTERACTION
Does Nonverbal Communication Cause Happiness?
	Introduction
	1. Friendship and Joy
	2. Other Social Relationships and Joy
	3. Leisure Activities and Joy
	4. Individual Differences in Happiness
	5. The use of NVC in mood induction and therapy
	REFERENCES
The Dissociation between Motor and Symbolic Movements in Coverbal Behavior
	1 Introduction
	2. The Timing of Movements
		2.1 Body Movements and Suprasegmental Speech Features
		2.2 Body Movements and Dysfluencies
	3. Physical Properties
	4. Encoding and Processing
	5. Functional Integration
	6. Conclusion
	REFERENCES
Formalisms for Clinical Observations
	1. Introduction
	2. The Author\'s Itinerary
	3. Verbal Observations Are Ambiguous
	4. Formal Systems Made Concrete
	5. Geoboard and Intervals
	6. Said: An Aphasic Child?
		6.1 The problem
		6.2 Case history
		6.3 Material
		6.4 Method
		6.5 Results
	7. General conclusion
	NOTES
	REFERENCES
Children\'s Artificial Limbs: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Implications
	1. Introduction
	2. Etiology of Limb Deficiency: The split-hook vs the myolectric prosthesis
	3. The Myoelectric Prosthesis
	4. Learning to Control the Prosthesis
	5. Life with Arms and Hands
	6. The Phantom Limb Phenomenon
	7. Cutaneous Sensitivity in the Limb and the Prosthesis
	8. Self-Esteem in the Limb Deficient Child
	9. Conclusions
	NOTE
	REFERENCES
PART III. CULTURAL AND CROSSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON GESTURES
Six Characters in Search of a Gesture: Chinese Graphs and Corporal Behavior
	1. Introduction
	2. The Character
	3. The character
	4. The two characters
	5. The character
	6. The character
	7. The characters
	NOTES
	REFERENCES
Facial and Manual Components of Italian Symbolic Gestures
	1. Introduction: The Classification of Gestures
	2. Method
	3. Results
	4. Discussion and Conclusion
	REFERENCES
The Veiled Face and Expressiveness among the Tuaregs
	1. Introduction
	2. The Veil and Rebirth
	3. The Architecture of the Veil
		3.1 The tagelmust
		3.2 The draping technique
		3.3 The structure of the veil
	4. The gestures
	5.Conclusion
	NOTES
	REFERENCES
Many Gestures, Many Meanings: Nonverbal Diversity in Israel
	1. Introduction: Understanding, Bodily Expression, and Cultural Diversity
	2. The Role of NVL in Human Communication
		2.1 The qualitative contribution of NVL to communication
		2.2 The quantitative relationship between VL and NVL
		2.3 NVL and culture
	3. The Three Faces of Understanding and Cultural NV Diversity
	4. Multicultural Modern Israel
	5. The Study
		5.1 Aims and topics
		5.2 The procedure
	6. Facts and Discussion
		6.1 Sending diversity: one message — many gestures
		6.2 Reading Diversity: one gesture — many meanings
		6.3 Interactive diversity of gestures and meanings
		6.4 Divergent decoding of common emblems by Israeli cultural subgroups
	7. Facts and Conclusion
	NOTES
	REFERENCES
PART IV. NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN LITERATURE: ADVANCEMENTS IN LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY
Nonverbal Communication in the Classics: Research Opportunities
	1. Rationale and Purpose
	2. Personal Appearance
	3. Bodily Signals
	4. Facial Expressions
	5. Spatial Behavior (Proxemics)
	6. Conclusion
	NOTES
	REFERENCES
Affect Displays in the Epic Poetry of Homer, Vergil, and Ovid
	1. Introduction: Categories of Nonverbal Behavior
	2. Affect Displays
	3. Specific Affect Displays: Stupefaction in Three Epics
	4. Conclusion
	NOTES
	REFERENCES
Nonverbal Expressiveness in Late Greek Epic: Quintus of Smyrna, and Nonnus
	1. Quintus and Nonnus
	2. Nonverbal Expressiveness
	3. Sample Size and Results
	4. Comparative Discussion
	5. Nonnus\' Gestural Style
	6. Appendix
	NOTES
	REFERENCES
Describing Nonverbal Behaviour in the Odyssey: Scenes and Verbal Frames as Translation Problems
	1. Culture-Specific Action Theory
	2. Frames and Scenes in Homer\'s Odyssey
	3. Scenes-and-Frames Theory
	NOTES
	REFERENCES
Paralanguage and Quasiparalinguistic Sounds as a Concern of Literary Analysis
	Introduction
	1. Verbal and Nonverbal Elements in the Printed Narrative Text
	2. Explicit Visual Description and Transcription of Paralanguage
	3. Implicit Paralanguage in the Text
	4. Literary Punctuation as Paralanguage: Limitations and Possibilities
	5. Nonspeech Human Sounds in the Text
	6. Contextual Environmental Sounds in the Narrative Text
	7. The Semiotic-Communicative Itinerary of Paralanguage and Other Sounds Between the Writer\'s Conception and the Reader\'s Recreation
	8. The Realistic Functions of Paralanguage and Sounds in a Novel
	9. The Communicative Functions of Paralinguistic Descriptions
	10. The Technical Functions of Explicit Paralanguage
	11. New Perspectives on Paralanguage in Translation
	12.Conclusion
	NOTE
	REFERENCES
	LITERARY REFERENCES
PART V. ART AND LITERATURE THE VISUAL RECREATION
Visual Meaning in Greek Drama: Sophocles\' Ajax and the Art of Dying
	1. Drama and the Visual Arts
		1.1 The tragic poetry of posture, gesture, and tableau
		1.2 Comic parody
		1.3 Vision and Stagecraft
	2. Sophocles\' Ajax and the Art of Dying
		2.1 The Ajax tradition: art, epic, drama
		2.2 The Sophoclean Ajax
		2.3 The suicide of Ajax: from darkness to light
		2.4 Vision enacted: the face of Ajax
		2.5 Sophocles and the Brygos Painter
	REFERENCES
PART VI. NEW ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVES ON NONVERBAL COMMUNCATION
The Interdisciplinary Teaching of Nonverbal Communication: Academic and Social Implications
	1. \"Foreigners Abroad\"
		1.1 The Problems
		1.2 Time and acculturation
	2. The Peoples Within
	3. The Personalized Environments of Students Rooms and Family Homes
	4. Public Places and Environments: Behaviors and Sensory Involvement
	5. Clothes and Adornment, Life Styles, Rock Concerts, and Hitchhikers
	6. Institutions and the Institutionalized: Immates, Residents, Patients, and Their Environments
	7. The Hospital: Nurse-Patient Interaction
	8. The Handicapped: Nonverbal Communication in Reduced Interaction
	9. Nonverbal Communication in Law Enforcement and the Military
	10. The Business World: Interviews, Settings, Workplace Behavior, Publicity
	11. Nonverbal Communication in Education: Environment, Appearance, Behavior
	12. Childrens\' Books Illustrations
	13. Comic Books
	14. Nonverbal Communication in Sports and Games
	15. Nonverbal Communication in the Novel and the Theater: Text and Performance
	16. Nonverbal Communication in the Bible
	17. Nonverbal Communication in Painting
	18. Photography: The Family Album and Photojournalism
	19. Behavior on the Screen: News, Shows, Politicians, and Films
	20. Conclusion and Further Topics
	NOTES
	REFERENCES
	APPENDIX
Name index
Subject index