Advances in Non-Verbal Communication

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Part 1 Theoretical research perspectives in nonverbal communication studies: the interaction of visual and verbal features in human communication, Juergen Streeck and Mark L. Knapp auditory communication - non-verbal, pre-verbal and co-verbal, Roger W. Wescott the audible-visual approach to speech as basic to nonverbal communication research, Fernando Poyatos prolegomenon to the elaboration of a new discipline - ethnogestics, Bernard Koechlin the rational of gestures in the West - a history from the 3rd to the 13th centuries, Jean-Claude Schmitt. Part 2 Social and clinical aspects of nonverbal interaction: does nonverbal communication cause happiness?, Michael Argyle the dissociation between motor and symbolic movements in coverbal behaviour, Uri Hadar the relevance of logical formalisms for nonverbal clinical observations, Francis Lowenthal children's artificial limbs - intrapersonal and interpersonal implications, Paul McDonnel. Part 3 Cultural and crosscultural perspectives on gestures: six characters in search of a gesture - Chinese graphs and corporal behaviour, Yau Shun-chiu facial and manula components of Italian symbolic gestures, Pio Enrico Ricci Bitti the veiled face and expressiveness among the Tuaregs, Helene Hawad-Claudot many gestures, many meanings - nonverbal diversity in Israel, Raphael Schneller. Part 4 Nonverbal communication in literature - advancements in literary anthropology: nonverbal communication in the classics - research opportunities, James P. Holoka affect displays in the epic poetry of Homer, Vergil and Ovid, Donald Lateiner nonverbal expressiveness in late Greek epic - Quintus of Smyrna and Nonnus, Ronald Newbold describing nonverbal behaviour in the Odyssey - scenes and verbal frames as translation problems, Hans J. Vermeer paralanguage and quasiparalinguistic sounds as a concern of literary analysis, Fernando Poyatos. Part 5 Art and literature - the visual recreaction: visual meaning in Greek drama - Sophocles' Ajax and the art of dying, Herbert Golder. Part 6 New academic perspectives on nonverbal communication: the interdisciplinary teaching of nonverbal communication - academic and social implications, Fernando Poyatos.