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ADVANCES IN NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION ADVANCES IN NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION SOCIOCULTURAL, CLINICAL, ESTHETIC AND LITERARY PERSPECTIVES Edited by FERNANDO POYATOS University of New Brunswick JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 1992 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Advances in non-verbal communication : sociocultural, clinical, esthetic, and literary perspectives / edited by Fernando Poyatos. p. cm. Includes indexes. Partial Contents: pt. 1. Theoretical research perspectives in nonverbal communication studies -- pt. 2. Social and clincial aspects of nonverbal interaction — pt. 3. Cultural and crosscultural perspectives on gestures -- pt. 4. Nonverbal communication in literature : advancements in literary anthropology -- pt. 5. Art and literature : the visual recreation -- pt. 6. New academic perspectives on nonverbal communication. 1. Nonverbal communication. I. Poyatos, Fernando. P99.5.A36 1992 302.2'22-dc20 92-599 ISBN 90 272 2085 9 (Eur.) /1-55619-121-9 (US) (alk. paper) CIP © Copyright 1992 - 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 75577 • 1070 AN Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • 821 Bethlehem Pike • Philadelphia, PA 19118 • USA Contents Preface ix Acknowledgements xi List of Contributors xiii Introduction xvii Fernando Poyatos PART I THEORETICAL RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN NONVERBAL COMMUNCATION STUDIES The Interaction of Visual and Verbal Features in Human 3 Communcation Jürgen Streeck and Mark L. Knapp Auditory Communication: Non-Verbal, Pre-Verbal, and Co-Verbal 25 Roger W. Wescott The Audible-Visual Approach to Speech as Basic to Nonverbal 41 Communcation Research Fernando Poyatos Prolegomenon to the Elaboration of a New Discipline: Ethnogestics 59 Bernard Koechlin The Rational of Gestures in the West: A History from the 3rd to the 77 13th Centuries Jean-Claude Schmitt PART II SOCIAL AND CLINICAL ASPECTS OF NONVERBAL INTERACTION Does Nonverbal Communication Cause Happiness? 99 Michael Argyle The Dissociation between Motor and Symbolic Movements in 113 coverbal Behavior Uri Hadar vi CONTENTS The Relevance of Logical Formalisms for Nonverbal Clincial 125 Observations Francis Lowenthal Children's Artificial Limbs: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal 145 Implications Paul McDonnel PART III CULTURAL AND CROSSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON GESTURES Six Characters in Search of a Gesture: Chinese Graphs and Corporal 163 Behavior Yau Shun-chiu Facial and Manual Components of Italian Symbolic Gestures 187 Pio Enrico Ricci Bitti The Veiled Face and Expressiveness Among the Tuaregs 197 Hélene Hawad-Claudot Many Gestures, Many Meanings: Nonverbal Diversity in Israel 213 Raphael Schneller PART IV NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN LITERATURE: ADVANCEMENTS IN LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY Nonverbal Communication in the Classics: Research Opportunities 237 James P. Holoka Affect Displays in the Epic Poetry of Homer, Vergil, and Ovid 255 Donald Lateiner Nonverbal Expressiveness in Late Greek Epic: Quintus of Smyrna, 271 and Nonnus Ronald Newbold Describing Nonverbal Behavior in the Odyssey: Scenes and Verbal 285 Frames as Translation Problems Hans J. Vermeer Paralanguage and Quasiparalinguistic Sounds as a Concern of Literary 301 Analysis Fernando Poyatos CONTENTS PART V ART AND LITERATURE: THE VISUAL RECREATION Visual Meaning in Greek Drama: Sophocles' Ajax and the Art of Dying Herbert Golder PART VI NEW ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVES ON NONVERRBAL COMMUNICATION The Interdisciplinary Teaching of Nonverbal Communication: Academic and Social Implications Fernando Poyatos Name Index Subject Index Preface Although it must be said once more that no single volume on nonverbal communication can truly do justice to the interdisciplinarity of the field, and this one is no exception, three specific characteristics, however, can set it apart: (a) Some of the areas included have not been discussed in similar vol umes before. (b) One of its two main objectives is to foster research in the many other hitherto unexplored or poorly explored areas suggested and indicate many specific topics which can be developed only through interdisciplinary cross-fertilization. (c) The other, to encourage further academic recognition of Nonverbal Communication Studies, and the establishment of interdisciplinary courses (for which some models are offered), as a field in itself and as a much needed complement to many of the existing disciplines where students can profit greatly from the new theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives and refinements they invariably discover in those courses. In this light, it is hoped that this new volume will broaden the bound aries, and the very concept, of Nonverbal Communication Studies, deserv ing the attention of communicologists, crosscultural anthropologists and ethnologists, sociologists, linguists, students of literature and literary trans lators, art historians, psychologists and clinical psychologists, and specialists in intercultural training.
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