Communication in face to face interaction : selected readings / edited by John Laver, Sandy Hutcheson
Imprint
Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1972
Edition
1st ed
Descript
418 p. : ill.; 20 cm
CONTENT
The analysis of conversational interaction: The experimental analysis of social performance -- Paralanguage -- Speech as a personality trait -- Praralanguage twenty-five years after sapir -- Language, status and solidarity: The pronouns of power and solidarity -- Address in American english -- Phatic communion -- Speech and personal characteristics: Judging personality from voice -- Judgement of personal characteristics and emotions from non-verbal properties of speech -- Voice quality and indexical information -- Non-vocal communication: The cultural basis of emotions and gestures -- The significance of posture in communication systems -- A system for the notation of proxemic behavior -- Silent assumptions in social communication -- Further studies of small-group ecology -- Eye contact, distance and affiliation -- Strategies of interaction: On face-work: an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction -- Alienation from interaction -- How people interact in conferences -- Sequencing in conversational openings