Pragmatics And Non Verbal Communication

Author : Tim Wharton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139483216

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Pragmatics and Non-Verbal Communication by Tim Wharton Pdf

The way we say the words we say helps us convey our intended meanings. Indeed, the tone of voice we use, the facial expressions and bodily gestures we adopt while we are talking, often add entirely new layers of meaning to those words. How the natural non-verbal properties of utterances interact with linguistic ones is a question that is often largely ignored. This book redresses the balance, providing a unique examination of non-verbal behaviours from a pragmatic perspective. It charts a point of contact between pragmatics, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, ethology and psychology, and provides the analytical basis to answer some important questions: How are non-verbal behaviours interpreted? What do they convey? How can they be best accommodated within a theory of utterance interpretation?

Author : Tim Wharton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521870979

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Pragmatics and Non-Verbal Communication by Tim Wharton Pdf

Examines non-verbal behaviours from a pragmatic perspective, establishing the role they play in our communication.

Author : Jef Verschueren,Jan-Ola Östman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289438

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Key Notions for Pragmatics by Jef Verschueren,Jan-Ola Östman Pdf

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, interactional, or discursive angles, this first volume reviews basic notions that pervade the pragmatic literature, such as deixis, implicitness, speech acts, context, and the like. It situates the field of pragmatics, broadly defined as the cognitive, social, and cultural science of language use, in relation to a general concept of communication and the discipline of semiotics. It also touches upon the non-verbal aspects of language use and even ventures a comparison with non-human forms of communication. The introductory chapter, moreover, explains why a highly diversified field of scholarship such as pragmatics can be regarded as a potentially coherent enterprise.

Author : Andrea Rocci,Louis de Saussure
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110394696

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Verbal Communication by Andrea Rocci,Louis de Saussure Pdf

Common sense tells us that verbal communication should be a central concern both for the study of communication and for the study of language. Language is the most pervasive means of communication in human societies, especially if we consider the huge gamut of communication phenomena where spoken and written language combines with other modalities, such as gestures or pictures. Most communication researchers have to deal with issues of language use in their work. Classic methods in communication research - from content analysis to interviews and questionnaires, not to mention the obvious cases of rhetorical analysis and discourse analysis - presuppose the understanding of the meaning of spontaneous or elicited verbal productions. Despite its pervasiveness, verbal communication does not currently define one cohesive and distinct subfield within the communication discipline. The Handbook of Verbal Communication seeks to address this gap. In doing so, it draws not only on the communication discipline, but also on the rich interdisciplinary research on language and communication that developed over the last fifty years as linguistics interacted with the social sciences and the cognitive sciences. The interaction of linguistic research with the social sciences has produced a plethora of approaches to the study of meanings in social context - from conversation analysis to critical discourse analysis, while cognitive research on verbal communication, carried out in cognitive pragmatics as well as in cognitive linguistics, has offered insights into the interaction between language, inference and persuasion and into cognitive processes such as framing or metaphorical mapping. The Handbook of Verbal Communication volume takes into account these two traditions selecting those issues and themes that are most relevant for communication scholars. It addresses background matters such as the evolution of human verbal communication and the relationship between verbal and non-verbal means of communication and offers a an extensive discussion of the explicit and implicit meanings of verbal messages, with a focus on emotive and figurative meanings. Conversation and fundamental types of discourse, such as argument and narrative, are presented in-depth, as is the key notion of discourse genre. The nature of writing systems as well as the interaction of spoken or written language with non-verbal modalities are devoted ample attention. Different contexts of language use are considered, from the mass media and the new media to the organizational contexts. Cultural and linguistic diversity is addressed, with a focus on phenomena such as multilingual communication and translation. A key feature of the volume is the coverage of verbal communication quality. Quality is examined both from a cognitive and from a social perspective. It covers topics that range from to the cognitive processes underlying deceptive communication to the methods that can be used to assess the quality of texts in an organizational context.

Author : Fernando Poyatos
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027220851

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Advances in Nonverbal Communication by Fernando Poyatos Pdf

This volume on nonverbal communication studies, the most multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to this field in almost twenty years, offers numerous suggestions for further research in many hitherto unexplored areas. The twenty contributions include the most recent theoretical and empirical crosscultural studies of gestures from historical, communicative and sociopsychological perspectives. In addition the volume presents novel psychological and clinical studies of nonverbal behaviors in connection with, for instance, aphasias and children's experience of artificial limbs. A whole section is devoted to nonverbal communication in literature and literary translation, and a discussion of art and literature, which opens new avenues for literary analysis and a better understanding of reading as a recreational experience. A unique feature is a discussion of Nonverbal Communication Studies as an academic area (including detailed outlines of three current courses), complemented by an extensive bibliography.

Author : Zsuzsanna I. Abrams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108490153

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Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy by Zsuzsanna I. Abrams Pdf

Using diverse language examples and tasks, this book illustrates how intercultural communication theory can inform second language teaching.

Author : Fernando Poyatos
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285621

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Nonverbal Communication and Translation by Fernando Poyatos Pdf

This is the first book, within the interdisciplinary field of Nonverbal Communication Studies, dealing with the specific tasks and problems involved in the translation of literary works as well as film and television texts, and in the live experience of simultaneous and consecutive interpretation. The theoretical and methodological ideas and models it contains should merit the interest not only of students of literature, professional translators and translatologists, interpreters, and those engaged in film and television dubbing, but also to literary readers, film and theatergoers, linguists and psycholinguists, semioticians, communicologists, and crosscultural anthropologists. Its sixteen contributions by translation scholars and professional interpreters from fifteen countries, deal with discourse in translation, intercultural problems, narrative literature, theater, poetry, interpretation, and film and television dubbing.

Author : David Matsumoto,Mark G. Frank,Hyi Sung Hwang
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781412999304

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Nonverbal Communication: Science and Applications by David Matsumoto,Mark G. Frank,Hyi Sung Hwang Pdf

This book examines state-of-the-art research and knowledge regarding nonverbal behaviour and applies that scientific knowledge to a broad range of fields. It presents a true scientist-practitioner model, blending cutting-edge behavioural science with real-world practical experience.

Author : Peter Gilroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015037808485

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Meaning Without Words by Peter Gilroy Pdf

Author : Gunther Martin,Federica Iurescia,Severin Hof,Giada Sorrentino
Publisher : Language of Classical Lite
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004440194

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Pragmatic Approaches to Drama by Gunther Martin,Federica Iurescia,Severin Hof,Giada Sorrentino Pdf

"This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, and theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and Roman Drama. Comedies and Tragedies spanning from 5th B.C.E. to 1st C.E. are investigated in terms of im/politeness, theory of mind, interpersonal pragmatics, and body language, to name some of the approaches which afford new interpretations of difficult textual passages or shed new light into nuances of characterisation, or possibilities of performance. Words, silence, gestures, do things, all the more so in dramatic dialogues on stage"--

Author : Polly E. Szatrowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270887

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Language and Food by Polly E. Szatrowski Pdf

This book investigates the intricate interplay between language and food in natural conversations among people eating and talking about food in English, Japanese, Wolof, Eegimaa, Danish, German, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. It is a socio-cultural/ linguistic study of how adults/ children organize their language and bodies to (1) accomplish rituals and performances of commensality (eating together) and food-related actions, (2) taste, describe, identify and assess food, and influence others’ preferences, (3) create and reinforce individual and group identities through past experiences and stories about food, and (4) socialize one another to food practices, affect, taste, gender and health norms. Using approaches from linguistics, conversation analysis, ethnography, discursive psychology, and linguistic anthropology, this book elucidates the dynamic verbal and nonverbal co-construction of food practices, assessments, categories, and identities in conversations over and about food, and contributes to research on contextualized social, cultural, and cognitive activity, language and food, and cross-cultural understanding.

Author : Louise Cummings
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789400779549

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Pragmatic Disorders by Louise Cummings Pdf

This wide-ranging survey of the state of the art in clinical pragmatics includes an examination of pragmatic disorders in previously neglected populations such as juvenile offenders, children and adults with emotional and behavioural disorders, and adults with non-Alzheimer dementias. This book makes a significant contribution to the discussion of pragmatic disorders by exploring topics which have a fast-rising profile in the field. These topics include disorders in which there are both pragmatic and cognitive components, and studies of the complex impacts of pragmatic disorders such as mental health problems, educational disadvantage and social exclusion. This book also presents a critical evaluation of our current state of knowledge of pragmatic disorders. The author focuses on the lack of integration between theoretical and clinical branches of pragmatics and argues that the work of clinicians is all too often inadequately informed by theoretical frameworks. She attempts to bridge these gaps by pursuing a closer alliance of clinical and theoretical branches of pragmatics. It is claimed that this alliance represents the most promising route for the future development of the field. At once a yardstick measuring progress thus far in clinical pragmatics, and also a roadmap for future research development, this single-author volume defines where we have reached in the field, as well as where we have to go next.​

Author : Bruno G. Bara
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262014113

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Cognitive Pragmatics by Bruno G. Bara Pdf

An argument that communication is a cooperative activity between agents, who together consciously and intentionally construct the meaning of their interaction. In Cognitive Pragmatics, Bruno Bara offers a theory of human communication that is both formalized through logic and empirically validated through experimental data and clinical studies. Bara argues that communication is a cooperative activity in which two or more agents together consciously and intentionally construct the meaning of their interaction. In true communication (which Bara distinguishes from the mere transmission of information), all the actors must share a set of mental states. Bara takes a cognitive perspective, investigating communication not from the viewpoint of an external observer (as is the practice in linguistics and the philosophy of language) but from within the mind of the individual. Bara examines communicative interaction through the notion of behavior and dialogue games, which structure both the generation and the comprehension of the communication act (either language or gesture). He describes both standard communication and nonstandard communication (which includes deception, irony, and "as-if" statements). Failures are analyzed in detail, with possible solutions explained. Bara investigates communicative competence in both evolutionary and developmental terms, tracing its emergence from hominids to Homo sapiens and defining the stages of its development in humans from birth to adulthood. He correlates his theory with the neurosciences, and explains the decay of communication that occurs both with different types of brain injury and with Alzheimer's disease. Throughout, Bara offers supporting data from the literature and his own research. The innovative theoretical framework outlined by Bara will be of interest not only to cognitive scientists and neuroscientists but also to anthropologists, linguists, and developmental psychologists.

Author : Geneviève Calbris
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228475

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Elements of Meaning in Gesture by Geneviève Calbris Pdf

Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Geneviève Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique perspective on the relationship between gesture, speech, and thought. She highlights the various functions of gesture and especially shows how various gestural signs can be created in the same gesture by analogical links between physical and semantic elements. Originating in our world experience via mimetic and metonymic processes, these analogical links are activated by contexts of use and thus lead to a diverse range of semantic constructions rather as, from the components of a Meccano kit, many different objects can be assembled. By (re)presenting perceptual schemata that mediate between the concrete and the abstract, gesture may frequently anticipate verbal formulation. Arguing for gesture as a symbolic system in its own right that interfaces with thought and speech production, Calbris' book brings a challenging new perspective to gesture studies and will be seminal for generations of gesture researchers.

Author : Kate Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000519082

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Pragmatics Online by Kate Scott Pdf

Pragmatics Online examines the use and interpretation of language and communication in digitally mediated contexts. It provides insight into how meaning is communicated online, with a focus on how users negotiate and navigate the constraints and resources of social media sites and other online contexts. The book introduces key concepts in the study of digital contexts and online communication, and discusses how these can be understood from the perspective of pragmatics. Each chapter examines a different topic and includes an overview of key research alongside original pragmatic analyses of data. Topics include sharing and liking, emoji and emotions, memes, and clickbait. Kate Scott focuses on how ideas and topics from pragmatics can be applied to mediated contexts, irrespective of the particular media. The book is an essential guide to the pragmatics of online discourse and behaviour for students and researchers working in the areas of digital pragmatics, language and media, and English language, linguistics, and communication studies.