Nonverbal Communication

Where Nature Meets Culture
Herausgeber: Molnar, Peter; Segerstrale, Ullica

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The field of nonverbal communication is a strategic site for demonstrating the inextricable interrelationship between nature and culture in human behaviour. This book, originally published in 1997, aims to explode the misconception that "biology" is something that automatically precludes or excludes "culture". Instead, it points to the necessary grounding of our social and cultural capabilities in biological givens and elucidates how biological factors are systematically co-opted for cultural purposes. The book presents a complex picture of human communicative ability as simultaneously biologically and socioculturally influenced, with some capacities apparently more biologically hard-wired than others: face recognition, imitation, emotional communication, and the capacity for language. It also suggests that the dividing line between nonverbal and linguistic communication is becoming much less clear-cut. The contributing authors are leading researchers in a variety of fields, writing here for a general audience. The book is divided into sections dealing with, respectively, human universals, evolutionary and developmental aspects of nonverbal behaviour within a sociocultural context, and finally, the multifaceted relationships between nonverbal communication and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9780815373964
• ISBN-10: 0815373961
• Artikelnr.: 58804611

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Nonverbal Communication: Crossing the Boundary Between Culture
and Nature Ullica Segerstråle and Peter Molnaìr Part 1: New Findings on the
Universality of Human Nonverbal Communication 2. Universal Facial
Expressions of Emotion: An Old Controversy and New Findings Paul Ekman and
Dacher Keltner 3. Psychophysiological Reactions to Facial Expressions Ulf
Dimberg 4. Universals in Interpersonal Interactions Wulf Schiefenhövel
Part 2: Development of Emotions in a Social and Cultural Context 5.
Preverbal Communication in Humans and the Genesis of Culture Hanu Papouek
and Mechthild Papousek 6. Development of Emotions and Their Expression in
Task-Oriented Situations in Infants and Preschool Children Klaus Schneider
7. Nonverbal Communication in Nonhuman Primates: Implications for the
Emergence of Culture Stephen J. Suomi Part 3: The Social Role of Nonverbal
Communication and Emotions: Evolutionary Inferences 8. Communication
Signals of Animals: Contributions of Emotion and Reference Peter Marler and
Christopher S. Evans 9. The Social Function of "Smile" and "Laughter":
Variations Across Primate Species and Societies Signe Preuschoft and Jan
A.R.A.M. van Hooff 10. Primate Communication and the Ecology of a Language
Niche Alexandra Maryanski 11. The Evolution of Emotions: The Nonverbal
Basis of Human Social Organization Jonathan H. Turner Part 4: Nonverbal
Communication as a Mediator Between Nature and Culture 12. Nonverbal
Communication and Culture Walter Goldschmidt 13. Posture as an Interface
Between Biology and Culture Michel Heller 14. Sign Languages and Gestures
in Medieval Europe: Monasteries, Courts of Justice, and Society August
Nitschke 15. Nonverbal Communication and the Emergence of Moral Sentiments
Robert Frank. List of Authors. Author Index. Subject Index.