This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the field of nonverbal behaviour from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. It examines current applications of nonverbal behaviour in teaching, counselling and therapy, in addition to looking at the intercultural implications. Included is an extensive bibliography of books published on this subject over the last 100 years. The book is intended for students, teachers, practitioners and researchers of social and clinical psychology, anthropology, speech communications, education and linguistics, and can be used as a textbook for both undergraduate and graduate students of human communication.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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3 Tab., 12 Graf.
3 Tab., 12 Graf.
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978-0-88937-008-1 (9780889370081)
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Part 1 Perspectives: the study of nonverbal vis-a-vis human communications theory; state of the art in vocal communication - a partial view; did gesture have the happiness to escape the curse at the confusion of Babel? the study of nonverbal behaviour and its applications - state of the arts in Europe; double vision - non verbal behaviour east and west. Part 2 Nonverbal behaviour in teaching, therapy and research: nonverbal behaviour aspects in teaching; nonverbal behaviour and psychotherapy - process research; nonverbal aspects of psychotherapy - discrete functions in the intercultural implications; data collection and analysis approaches in nonverbal behaviour research; past problems and future direction in nonverbal behaviour research - the case of the face. Part 3 Intercultural insights: state of the art of nonverbal behaviour in intercultural counselling; gender as culture - difference and dominance in nonverbal behaviour; black/white nonverbal differences, dance and dissonance - implications for desegregation; nonverbal behaviour in teacher-student relationships - an intercultural perspective; linguistic fluency and verbal-nonverbal cultural fluency.
