Description
The newly revised edition of this groundbreaking textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the theory, research, and applications of nonverbal communication.
Authored by three of the foremost scholars in the field and drawing on multidisciplinary research from communication studies, psychology, linguistics, and family studies, Nonverbal Communication speaks to today’s students with modern examples that illustrate nonverbal communication in their lived experiences. It emphasizes nonverbal codes as well as the functions they perform to help students see how nonverbal cues work with one another and with the verbal system through which we create and understand messages and shows how consequential nonverbal means of communicating are in people’s lives. Chapters cover the social and biological foundations of nonverbal communication as well as the expression of emotions, interpersonal conversation, deception, power, and influence. This edition includes new content on “Influencing Others,” as well as a revised chapter on “Displaying Identities, Managing Images, and Forming Impressions” that combines identity, impression management, and person perception.
Nonverbal Communication serves as a core textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in communication and psychology.
Online resources for instructors, including an extensive instructor’s manual with sample exercises and a test bank, are available at www.routledge.com/9780367557386
Table of Contents
Part 1: Foundations 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Bio-evolutionary Influences on Nonverbal Communication 3. Sociocultural Influences on Nonverbal Communication 4. The Visual and Auditory Codes: Kinesics and Vocalics 5. The Contact Codes: Haptics and Proxemics 6. The Body as a Code: Appearance and Adornment 7. The Place and Time Codes: Environment, Artifacts, and Chronemics Part 2: Functions 8. Displaying Identities, Managing Images, and Forming Impressions 9. Expressing Emotions 10. Relational Messages: Developing and Expressing Closeness 11. Relational Messages: Power, Dominance, and Status 12. Coordinating Interaction 13. Influencing Others 14. Deceiving and Detecting Deception
