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Paralanguage and kinesics define the tripartite nature of speech. Volume II 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 communicative uses of physiological and emotional reactions like laughter, crying, sighing, coughing, sneezing, etc.; and word-like utterances beyond the official dictionary. Kinesics is viewed from interactive, intercultural and cross-cultural, and literary perspectives, with much needed research principles for the realistic study of gestures, manners and postures in their intersystemic links. Applications are given in the social or clinical sciences, intercultural communication, literature, painting, theater and cinema, etc. Related to both paralanguage and kinesics are the many eloquent sounds produced bodily, by manipulated objects and by the environment. A discussion of silence and stillness as opposed to sound and movement and related to darkness and light, shows their true interactive status, coding, functions, qualifiers, intersystemic co-structurations, positive and negative functions, and cross-cultural attitudes toward silence. The first two volumes are then brought together in a detailed model for studying our interactions with people and the environment, including certain emitting and transmitting congenital or traumatic limitations. 1608 quotations from 133 authors and 216 works vividly illustrate all topics.
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Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume II: Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction Fernando Poyatos John Benjamins Publishing Company Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines, Volume II Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines Volume II: Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction Fernando Poyatos University of New Brunswick John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Poyatos, Fernando Nonverbal communication across disciplines / Fernando Poyatos. v. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contens: v. 1. Culture, sensory interaction, speech, conversation -- v. 2. Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction -- v. 3. Narrative literature, theater, cinema, translation. 1. Nonverbal communication. 2. Communication and culture. 3. Oral communication. I. Title. P99.5.P694 2002 302.2’22--dc21 2001052813 isbn 90 272 2184 7 (set) -- isbn 90 272 2181 2 (v.1) -- isbn 90 272 2182 0 (v.2) -- isbn 90 272 2183 9 (v.3) (Eur.) / isbn 1-55619-756-X (set) -- isbn 1-55619-753-5 (v.1) -- isbn 1-55619-754-3 (v.2) -- isbn 1-55619-755-1 (v.3) (US) © 2002 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Volume II In grateful memory of George A. Trager, Ray L. Birdwhsitell and Albert E. Scheflen, for with their pioneering work in paralanguage, kinesics and interaction, respectively, they encouraged me to always seek new perspectives Table of contents Preface Introduction xiii xv Chapter 1 Paralanguage, I: Primary qualities or basic personal voice feat