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Book: Nonverbal Communication

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Title: Nonverbal Communication
Series Title: Handbooks of Communication Science

Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/119484?format=G

Editor: Judith A. Hall
Editor: Mark L. Knapp

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110238150 Pages: 882 Price: Europe EURO 199.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110238143 Pages: 882 Price: Europe EURO 199.95

Abstract:

The current volume will emphasize uses, purposes, origins, and consequences of
nonverbal communication in the lives of individuals, dyads, and groups-in
other words, the behavior of human beings. As such, it will not emphasize
communication systems per se nor the impact on humans of the physical
environment, whether built or natural. With a field as widely represented as
this one, full coverage within one volume is impossible. Therefore, the
decision was made by the volume Editors to cover many different topics, the
volume’s unity will derive from its focus on the persons (or, in one chapter,
non-human animals) engaging in nonverbal communication and the communicative
and psychological aspects of this behavior. Nonverbal behavior is the more
inclusive category and includes all emitted nonverbal behavior that may be
subject to interpretation by others, whether the behavior is intentionally
produced or not. In contrast, nonverbal communication refers to a subset of
nonverbal behavior that represents a more active process whereby encoder
(expressor) and decoder (recipient) emit and interpret behaviors according to
a shared meaning code.