Fernando Poyatos

List of John Benjamins publications in which Fernando Poyatos is involved.

Textual Translation and Live Translation: The total experience of nonverbal communication in literature, theater and cinema

Fernando Poyatos

After the many interdisciplinary perspectives on nonverbal communication offered by the author in his previous seven John Benjamins books, which have generated a wide range of scholarly applications, the present monograph is dominated by a very broad concept of translation. This treatment of… read more

[Not in series, 142] 2008. xix, 365 pp.

Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 1: Culture, sensory interaction, speech, conversation

Fernando Poyatos

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… read more

[Not in series, NCAD 1] 2002. xxvi, 371 pp.

Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 2: Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction

Fernando Poyatos

Paralanguage and kinesics define the tripartite nature of speech. Volume 2 builds on Poyatos’ book Paralanguage (1993) – reviewed by Mary Key as “the most amplified description of paralanguage available today”. It covers our basic voice components; the many normal or abnormal voice types; the… read more

[Not in series, NCAD 2] 2002. xviii, 458 pp.

Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 3: Narrative literature, theater, cinema, translation

Fernando Poyatos

This volume, based on the first two, identifies the verbal and nonverbal personal and environmental components of narrative and dramaturgic texts and the cinema — recreated in the first through the ‘reading act’ according to gaze mechanism and punctuation — and traces the coding-decoding processes… read more

[Not in series, NCAD 3] 2002. xx, 287 pp.

Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: 3 Volumes (set)

Fernando Poyatos

The interdisciplinary field of Nonverbal Communication Studies is covered in these three volumes in a great variety of aspects, including sensory exchanges, intercultural communication and problems, and the deeper levels of personal as well as person-environment interactions. Taking roots in… read more

[Not in series, NCAD S] 2002. 1180 pp.

Nonverbal Communication and Translation: New perspectives and challenges in literature, interpretation and the media

Edited by Fernando Poyatos

This is the first book, within the interdisciplinary field of Nonverbal Communication Studies, dealing with the specific tasks and problems involved in the translation of literary works as well as film and television texts, and in the live experience of simultaneous and consecutive interpretation.… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 17] 1997. xii, 361 pp.

Paralanguage: A linguistic and interdisciplinary approach to interactive speech and sounds

Fernando Poyatos

This is the first interdisciplinary book-length treatment of paralanguage, briefly defined as: nonverbal vocal or narial communication. After sensitizing the reader to our sound-generating movements and to all human external and environmental sounds for their unquestionable communicative qualities,… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 92] 1993. xii, 478 pp.

Advances in Non-Verbal Communication: Sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives

Edited by Fernando Poyatos

This volume on nonverbal communication studies, the most multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to this field in almost twenty years, offers numerous suggestions for further research in many hitherto unexplored areas. The twenty contributions include the most recent theoretical and empirical… read more

[Not in series, 60] 1992. xxiv, 412 pp.

Literary Anthropology: A new interdisciplinary approach to people, signs and literature

Edited by Fernando Poyatos

The traditional gulf between the theory and practice of literature and the various areas subjoined under anthropology has hindered the development of some very fruitful perspectives in the realm of poetics and the general theory of literature (particularly in its narrative forms). Poyatos' initial… read more

[Not in series, 36] 1988. xxiii, 353 pp.

Poyatos, Fernando 2002 The nature, morphology and functions of gestures, manners and postures as documented by creative literature Gesture 2:1, pp. 99–117 | Article

The aim of this article is to show how the creative literatures of the different cultures offer kinesic researchers a reliable and virtually inexhaustible corpus of documentation which can enrich kinesic research by contributing to a detailed morphological and functional taxonomy of visual… read more

Poyatos, Fernando 1997 Introduction Nonverbal Communication and Translation: New perspectives and challenges in literature, interpretation and the media, Poyatos, Fernando (ed.), pp. 1–16 | Miscellaneous

Poyatos, Fernando 1997 Aspects, problems and challenges of nonverbal communication in literary translation Nonverbal Communication and Translation: New perspectives and challenges in literature, interpretation and the media, Poyatos, Fernando (ed.), pp. 17–48 | Article

Poyatos, Fernando 1997 the reality of multichannel verbal-nonverbal communication in simultaneous and consecutive interpretation Nonverbal Communication and Translation: New perspectives and challenges in literature, interpretation and the media, Poyatos, Fernando (ed.), pp. 249–282 | Article

Poyatos, Fernando 1992 The Interdisciplinary Teaching of Nonverbal Communication: Academic and Social Implications Advances in Non-Verbal Communication: Sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives, Poyatos, Fernando (ed.), pp. 363–398 | Article

Poyatos, Fernando 1992 Paralanguage and Quasiparalinguistic Sounds as a Concern of Literary Analysis Advances in Non-Verbal Communication: Sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives, Poyatos, Fernando (ed.), pp. 301–322 | Article

Poyatos, Fernando 1992 The Audible-Visual Approach to Speech as Basic to Nonverbal Communication Research Advances in Non-Verbal Communication: Sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives, Poyatos, Fernando (ed.), pp. 41–58 | Article

Poyatos, Fernando 1992 Introduction Advances in Non-Verbal Communication: Sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives, Poyatos, Fernando (ed.), pp. xvii–xxiv | Miscellaneous

Poyatos, Fernando 1979 Phonetic and interdisciplinary new perspectives in paralinguistic studies Current Issues in the Phonetic Sciences: Proceedings of the IPS-77 Congress, Miami Beach, Florida, 17–19 December 1977, Hollien, Harry and Patricia Hollien (eds.), pp. 1105–1116 | Article