Nonverbal Communication: Forms and Functions
Published on 16. November 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-1-55934-726-6 (ISBN)
Description
Within an accessible presentation, this text emphasizes a functional approach to nonverbal communication, describing how nonverbal behavior can communicate power, affection, intimacy, deception, anxiety, persuasion, gender, and culture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
739 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55934-726-6 (9781559347266)
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Content
PART I. THE FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION 1. Nonverbal Communication and Language: Distinctions and Connections 2. The Body Codes of Nonverbal Communication 3. The Contextual Codes of Nonverbal Communication 4. Cultural Cues: Nonverbal Communication in a Diverse World 5. Gender, Sex, and Nonverbal CommunicationPART II. AFFECTIVE EXCHANGES: FEELINGS AND NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION 6. The Nonverbal Communication of Emotion 7. Communication and Stress: Nonverbal Reactions to Arousal and Anxiety 8. Immediacy and Nonverbal Communication 9. Nonverbal Communication in Intimate RelationshipsPART III. IMPLICIT INFLUENCE: NONVERBAL CUES OF PERSUASION, DECEPTION, AND POWER 10. Persuasive Posturing: Influencing Others through Nonverbal Communication 11. Concealing and Revealing: Deception and Its Detection through Nonverbal Cues 12. Positions of Power: The Nonverbal Communication of Controls, Power, and Status