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In:Advances in Non-Verbal Communication: Sociocultural, clinical, esthetic and literary perspectives
Edited by Fernando Poyatos
[Not in series 60] 1992
► pp. v–viii

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Published online: 10 December 1992
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Table of contents

Prefaceix
Acknowledgementsxi
List of Contributorsxiii
Introductionxvii
Part I. Theoretical research perspectives in nonverbal communication studies
The Interaction of Visual and Verbal Features in Human Communication3
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Auditory Communication: Non-Verbal, Pre-Verbal, and Co-Verbal25
The Audible-Visual Approach to Speech as Basic to Nonverbal Communication Research41
Prolegomenon to the Elaboration of a New Discipline: Ethnogestics59
The Rational of Gestures in the West: A History form the 3rd to the 13th Centuries77
Part II. Social and clinical aspects of nonverbal interaction
Does Nonverbal Communication Cause Happiness?99
The Dissociation between Motor and Symbolic Movements in coverbal Behavior113
The Relevance of Logical Formalisms for Nonverbal Clinical Observations125
Children’s Artificial Limbs: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Implications145
Part III. Cultural and Crosscultural Perspectives on Gestures
Six Characters in Search of a Gesture: Chinese Graphs and Corporal Behavior163
Facial and Manual Components of Italian Symbolic Gestures187
The Veiled Face and Expressiveness Among the Tuaregs197
Many Gestures, Many Meanings: Nonverbal Diversity in Israel213
Part IV. Nonverbal Communication in Literature: Advancements in Literary Anthropology
Nonverbal Communication in the Classics: Research Opportunities237
Affect Displays in the Epic Poetry of Homer, Vergil, and Ovid255
Nonverbal Expressiveness in Late Greek Epic: Quintus of Smyrna, and Nonnus271
Describing Nonverbal Behavior in the Odyssey: Scenes and Verbal Frames as Translation Problems285
Paralanguage and Quasiparalinguistic Sounds as a Concern of Literary Analysis301
Part V. Art and Literature: The Visual Recreation
Visual Meaning in Greek Drama: Sophocles’ Ajax and the Art of Dying323
Part VI. Nonverbal Communication in Literature: Advancements in Literature: Advancements in Literary Anthropology
The Interdisciplinary Teaching of Nonverbal Communication: Academic and Social Implications363
Name Index399
Subject Index409
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